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Integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations across policies and processes is essential to build resilient and inclusive supply chains. Supply chain management systems that do not consider everyone’s needs and value all individuals may cause harm to both people and businesses.
Companies can foster more diverse and inclusive working environments across their supply chain. This resource hub aims to centralize and share the different tools BSR has developed to help companies and organizations integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into their supplier management systems and approaches. For futher information, please contact us.
Overview
Blog
Making Supply Chains Work for Women
When it comes to tackling harassment and abuse, compliance programs alone are inadequate. They need to be rethought with the worker at the center, and they should measure and bolster the programs put in place to address root causes and build real change.
Video
Gender Equality in Supply Chains
Women working in global supply chains face systemic discrimination that makes their lives harder and that erodes the strength of the chain. Business can act, enable, and influence to tackle this inequality.
Gender Equality in Codes of Conduct
Blog
New BSR Guidance Integrates Gender Equality into Supply Chain Codes of Conduct
While codes of conduct are the most widespread tools companies use to drive sustainability throughout the supply chain, they don’t yet effectively frame and address the specific risks facing women.
Guidance
Gender Equality in Codes of Conduct
This guidance provides a framework for companies to integrate gender equality considerations into the standards they use to set supply chain ethical requirements. The development of this resource was sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Gender Equality in Social Audits
Blog
Are you Ready to Incorporate Gender into your Supply Chain Due Diligence?
New gender-sensitive auditing guidance provides recommendations, practical advice, and relevant examples on how to effectively integrate gender considerations into audits.
Guidance
Gender Equality in Social Auditing Guidance
This guidance identifies improvements required for gender-sensitive social auditing and provides recommendations, practical advice, and relevant examples on how to effectively integrate gender considerations into audits. The development of this resource was sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
E-Learning
Module 1: Introduction, Concepts, Challenges, and the Business Case
E-Learning
Module 2: Why Gender is Important for Social Audits.
E-Learning
Module 3: Conducting a Gender Sensitive Social Audit
Gender Equality in Supply Chain Due Diligence
Blog
Making Data Work for Women
BSR is proud to lead a major new initiative to develop a gender data framework for global supply chains.
Blog
Harnessing the Power of Data in Supply Chains: Making Women Workers Count and Be Counted
How can companies conduct more gender-responsive due diligence approaches, and what role does gender-disaggregated data play in this? This is the question that BSR’s Making Women Workers Count: Conducting Gender-Responsive Due Diligence in Supply Chains sets out to address.
Guidance
Making Women Workers Count: A Framework for Conducting Gender Responsive Due Diligence in Supply Chains
This guidance provides recommendations on how to integrate a gender dimension to due diligences and identifies a set of indicators to be used to measure outcomes for workers. The development of this resource was sponsored by the C&A Foundation.
Tool
Making Women Workers Count
This tool can help suppliers identify gendered gaps in outcomes for workers, design an effective action plan, and track improvements against worker outcomes.
Events and Recordings
Gender Data and Impact Framework and Tool Webinar
This webinar presents an opportunity to learn about BSR's Gender Data and Impact Framework and Tool to conduct gender-responsive due diligence in supply chains.
Respect, Diversity, and Inclusion in Supply Chains
E-Learning
Respect and Inclusion, An Introduction for Global Supply Chains
In partnership with Ralph Lauren, BSR developed an interactive e-learning training module to help companies and brands start conversations on respect, diversity and inclusion with leadership and managers of suppliers. The e-learning, available in English, Spanish, Hindi, and Vietnamese, introduces key concepts including diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias. The training includes regional case studies that portray potential issues that may arise in factories.
Please note: The content should be carefully reviewed before sharing with suppliers to ensure the audience is receptive of issues presented.
Case Studies and Reports
Report
Women in the Luxury Supply Chain—A Focus on Italy
This report sheds light on the status and challenges faced by women workers in Italy, particularly those working in the luxury sector, and identifies areas of intervention with practical recommendations on actionable next steps.
Report
Women in the Jewelry Supply Chain: Landscape Review of Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment
Explores the role of women in the jewelry supply chain and the challenges they face to their well-being and advancement.
Blog
Challenges and Opportunities for Gender Equality in a European Luxury Supply Chain
While women are vital to the Italian luxury sector, gender inequality throughout the supply chain still impacts them in the short- and long-term. However, both brands and suppliers are well placed to lead efforts towards improved gender equality in Italy, in both supply chains and in the country’s overall sociocultural context.