Promoting Equal and Respectful Workplaces
“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” - Malala Yousafzai
Echoing the words of Malala Yousafzai, women and girls are all too often discriminated against, which in turn has direct negative consequence on any society's economic growth. Women’s equality and empowerment is one of United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and integral to all dimensions of inclusive and sustainable development.
With a lack of women in leadership roles, and in professional and technical jobs the gender gap is yet far from being closed. Quizrr, an ed-tech pioneer is working to empower women, and men across the globe with awareness and skills to change that.
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) where 156 countries are indexed based on their gender gap, the parity today is 68%, meaning that it will take 135,6 years to close the gender gap worldwide. Bangladesh for example ranks 65th on the GGGI thanks to its political empowerment of women. However, when taking a closer look at their placement on the sub-indexes on economic participation & opportunity, educational attainment, and health & survival, Bangladesh ranked 147th, 121st, and 134th, respectively. One reason for this is a lack of women in leadership roles, and in jobs requiring technical skills and digital literacy. There are three million Bangladeshi women employed in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector.
Bangladesh’s largest export industry, the ready-made garment sector, is at a pace automizing their production processes and consequently female garment workers are losing their jobs. To address these issues deep impact organizations, such as Brac, H&M Foundation and Asia Foundation join forces with the RMG industry, and with ed-tech innovators that can provide scalable digital solutions to up-skill and empower female garment workers in Bangladesh in order to secure their livelihood.
Allowing women to grow and acquire new skills, knowledge, and tools to be able to take charge of their own future and dreams does not only benefit individuals, but also society as a whole and generations to come. Here, knowledge is a great equalizer and for real change to happen we need to involve everyone of all genders and ages - from the bottom up. To create equal opportunities, each individual needs to grasp the meaning of gender inequality. Not only should this be a given in every school curriculum, but also be self-evident at the workplace.
About the author
Miyabi Holm, Program Manager Quizrr with a focus on building digital training contents that promotes equal and respectful workplaces in global supply chains. Learn more on www.quizrr.se.
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Today, all day and everyday in the world of Quizrr, is the International Women’s Day. We are firm believers in promoting Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.
Our Gender and Inclusivity training is designed to promote equal and respectful workplaces in global supply chains and beyond with knowledge and access to female (and male) role models, leadership skills, digital literacy, equal opportunity and more.
To date we have reached
162,043 Females trained
727,538 Modules completed
547 Factories across the globe