Valuing Women’s Work: A framework for business on gender equality and decent work

Abstract

Our strategic focus, Valuing Women’s Work (VWW), aims to redefine what ‘work’ means so that all the work women do – paid and unpaid – can truly be valued. This first briefing from the forthcoming series, Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work, is an overview and introduces some of the issues we will be tackling as part of the strategic focus of VWW. The series aims to improve and reinforce companies’ understanding of how the systemic issues driving gender inequality interact with business practices. Vitally, the briefings show how transformative gender equality engagement is not about fixing women but about removing the structures and norms which disempower women in the first place.