Advancing Workplace Inclusivity Through A Mother’s Room Case Study In honor of World Breastfeeding Month this August 2025, we’re proud to launch our Advancing Workplace Inclusivity Through A Mother’s Room Case Study. Sometimes, it’s the smallest spaces that make the biggest difference. With the help of BCGE, committed member companies opened th...
Business Coalition for Gender Equality (BCGE) Launches သာတူညီမျှ (Thar Tu Nyi Hyma) Workplace Gender Equality Impact Report of BCGE (2018~2021) in Myanmar As a centre of excellence and trusted advisor in workplace gender equality, diversity and inclusion in Myanmar’s private sector, BCGE has taken the first step toward fostering an ...
During challenging situations, leaders can be infectious with positive actions. It is proved that the mood of leaders has a disproportionate effect on the mood of others. Acknowledgement in inter-relatedness in physical, mental and spiritual health is a vital leadership trait to be resilient and caring. Thus, leaders can bring optimistic hope and positi...
For the private sector, the challenges of COVID-19 required nimble responses and new ways of doing business. This multimedia package highlights the value of women’s leadership characteristics in steering companies through crisis and recovers stronger. Video interviews capture the voices of 8 women business leaders from 8 countries and eight industries...
Workplace flexibility is here to stay. The question is, how do we integrate such flexibility to work. Mainstreaming flexibility is work and job redesign – managers and employees struggle to redesign work and jobs in sustainable ways and improve performance and wellbeing. Future-Flex is shifting from an ‘individual accommodation’ to a &...
Since 2017, International Finance Corporation’s series of Tackling Childcare reports spanning Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and other countries show that there is a strong business case for employers to meet the care needs of their employees. IFC research shows that family-friendly workplace policies such as...
Guide for Businesses Operating in Myanmar to Respect Human Rights The primary purpose of this Guide is to help businesses go beyond their fundamental responsibilities and increase support of respecting and ensuring the human rights of workers and their families. This Guide reflects international best practices as well as actions that various busines...
The ASEAN Gender Outlook is the first regional flagship publication jointly produced by ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW), the ASEAN Secretariat and UN Women. It is dedicated to track progress towards gender equality and SDGs in the ASEAN region. It calls for increased investment in gender data and evidence, which is important to inform policy decision-mak...
Published by the World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. Eight indicators—structured around women’s interactions with the law as they begin, progress through, and end their careers—align with the e...
Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt, closing the global gender gap has increased by a generation from 99.5 years to 135.6 years. To read the full report, click here to download: Download PDF ...
