Targets
5.1) End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
Philip Morris International (PMI)
Philip Morris International (PMI) is committed to gender equality, and empowering and providing opportunity to women and girls in a diverse workforce of 82,000 people. For example, PMI, a U.S. company headquartered in New York, is the first multinational present in Switzerland where PMI has its operations center, to be awarded Equal-Salary Status. Equal Salary is an organization that operates in collaboration with the Geneva University Employment Observatory, an institution specialized in labor-market issues. It provides certification of equal compensation for women and men. PMI is working to expand its certified equal-salary status to other geographies. PMI takes a merit-based approach to all employment-related decisions and does not limit people’s opportunity to contribute or advance based on age, childcare responsibilities, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, pregnancy, or other protected personal characteristics.
The Gap Inc.
The Gap was founded in 1969 as an equal investment between a woman and a man — Doris Fisher and her husband, Don. Today, women make up approximately 73 percent of the company's workforce. The majority of its five brands’ customers are female. Gender equality is built into the fabric of the company culture and work. In 2014, Gap Inc. became the first Fortune 500 Company to announce that it pays employees equally for equal work. Additionally, 2020 marked the third consecutive year that Gap Inc. was included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the company’s commitment to transparency in gender reporting and advancing women’s rights.
5.2) Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
5.3) Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilations
5.4) Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies, and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.5) Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life
Citi
In 2017, Citi helped the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, issue a 3-year, $500 million inaugural Social Bond to expand financing for projects that benefit women-owned enterprises and low-income communities in emerging markets. A portion of the proceeds from the bond was used to support financial institutions that offer loans to female entrepreneurs to enable women to get access to financing. The IFC’s Social Bond Program builds upon its Banking on Women Bond Program, which has raised $268 million since 2013, as well as its Inclusive Business Bond Program, which has raised $296 million since 2013. In addition, to affirm Citi’s own deep, long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion and to helping women-owned businesses grow and succeed, Citi hired seven women-owned broker-dealers to lead the distribution of Citi’s $2.5 Billion Citibank, N.A. bond issuance in March 2017. This demonstrated the role that Citi is playing in promoting diversity in the capital markets and the economy.
Novozymes
Novozymes has a long-term target to have 30% females in Senior Management positions by 2020.
To emphasize the importance of meeting its diversity target, a process has been established to ensure that diversity remains core to Novozymes recruitment. The company also has the objective of further promoting diversity among leaders and continues to increase this focus via its global talent pool for management and succession planning processes.
In Denmark, Novozymes is a member of the Gender Diversity Roundtable, an initiative that brings together the top leaders from 15 Danish Businesses to bring more women into leadership roles.
The Gap Inc.
The Gap Inc. P.A.C.E. program (Personal Advancement and Career Enhancement) empowers women with the skills and confidence to advance at work and at home. Even though eighty percent of garment workers worldwide are women, relatively few advance to higher-level positions—in spite of their capacity to do so. Designed as an education program offering life-skills classes to female garment workers, the holistic curriculum includes up to 80 hours of classes in as many as nine subject areas, such as communication skills; financial literacy; time and stress management; and problem solving and decision-making. Since GAP launched P.A.C.E. in 2007, more than 30,000 women in 10 countries have participated in the program – and in September 2015, GAP announced a commitment to expand the program to reach one million women around the world by 2020. P.A.C.E.’s evaluation results have demonstrated that the program improves the lives of women and their families by developing women’s knowledge, skills and confidence. The program also has a strong business impact by reducing turnover and absenteeism. GAP has progressively expanded the program from focusing solely on the women who make its clothes to also include women in surrounding communities, and is also adding curricula focused on adolescent girls’ and women’s leadership. Additionally, the program is now being offered to global partners and peer corporations in an effort to broaden its reach and impact.
The Coca-cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company committed to enable the economic empowerment of 5 million women across its global value chain by 2020. This initiative, called 5by20, launched in 2010. By the end of 2013, 5by20 had enabled more than 550,000 women in 44 countries around the world. Coca-Cola is working across the Golden Triangle of business, government and civil society to bring its unique areas of expertise, reach and skills to make progress in this important area.
Walmart
Walmart is tackling gender equality, in particular through retail opportunities, responsible supply chains and inclusive sourcing. As part of its goal to put millions of associates through focused training programs to equip them with skills to improve career growth by 2025, 60% of associates trained were women. Moreover, women represent 43% of U.S. management and 32% of officers on Walmart’s Board. Between 2011 and 2017, Walmart Foundation funded training for more than 600,000 women farmers. Finally, Walmart spent $30 billion with women-owned businesses between 2012 and 2019.
MasterCard
“Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World” is a joint initiative from the Singapore Committee for UN Women and MasterCard, to help young change-makers create a better world for women and girls in Asia and the Pacific. Launched in 2011, to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Project Inspire presents 18-35 year olds with a five-minute platform to pitch their inspired idea, for the chance to win a US$25,000 grant. The competition attracted over 430 entries from 65 countries around the world with a broad range of projects from the cultivation of traditional dyes in Indonesia to female health education applications in South Africa in 2015.
5.6) Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
Procter & Gamble
The P&G Always brand has provided puberty education to over 12 million through its Protecting Futures Program, which provides girls age 12-14 with education on good personal hygiene, puberty, menstruation and personal care. Started in 2006, the program is aimed at helping girls attend classes during their periods and thus stay in school. The program has expanded from Africa to the Middle East, successfully impacting 20 countries.
Through the Protecting Futures program, over 225, 000 sanitary pads via the UNHCR and over 30 million single to 4 pack pad samples have been distributed. P&G reached over 353 million people with the Protecting Futures message. Through P&G's family of brands such as Always, Tampax, Children's Safe Drinking Water and Safeguard, they have built and/or rehabilitated a total of 501 bathrooms/latrines and disposable pits. Over 8 million dollars has been put towards program funding.
Means of Implementation
5.A) Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance, and natural resources in accordance with national laws
5.B) Enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote the empowerment of women
MasterCard
MasterCard recently launched the Give Me 5 initiative in response to Goal 5 to address the work that MasterCard is doing for gender equality. MasterCard is working with governments like Nigeria and Egypt to link Identity solutions with payments – enabling people to become financially included on a massive scale. The company’s partnership with UN Women will provide half a million Nigerian women with ID cards enabled with electronic payments functionality, advancing gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. 2Kuze, a product developed by the MasterCard Labs for Financial Inclusion in Nairobi that digitizes the agriculture supply chain, helps supports women farmers, who often have household duties that prevent them from leaving the farm gate and are more often subject to having to take whatever deal is given them from middlemen in the process.
MasterCard created and launched Girls4Tech in 2014, a signature education program based on global science and math standards that has already reached 22,000 girls in 16 countries. This hands-on, inquiry-based program connects the foundations of our business to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) principles and shows students that it takes all kinds of interests and skills to pursue a STEM career. Designed to inspire young girls to build STEM skills that will help them become leaders of tomorrow and learn about possible STEM careers, it showcases MasterCard’s payments technology emphasizing the foundations of the business – algorithms, encryption, fraud detection, data analysis, digital convergence and the power of our network.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™ is a strategic initiative that brings wireless technology to underserved communities globally. Wireless Reach invests in projects that foster entrepreneurship, aid in public safety, enhance the delivery of health care, enrich teaching and learning and improve environmental sustainability. Mobile technologies are literally breaking down barriers – geographic, socio-economic, educational and cultural – that have historically obstructed progress in developing countries. To date, Wireless Reach has collaborated with more than 450 stakeholders on over 100 projects in 40 countries, and has benefitted nearly 8 million people.
Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™ and Hapinoy have partnered in creating the Hapinoy Mobile Money Hub project in the Philippines, a program that provides participating Nanays (Tagalog for “Mother”) with mobile literacy training, access to capital via micro financing institutions, and new business opportunities using advanced wireless technologies. The project empowers Nanay microentrepreneurs to become Mobile Money Agents, allowing them to generate additional income by providing reliable remittance service in their local neighborhoods. Qualcomm has contributed primary funding for the project, along with project management support and wireless technology expertise.
In Malaysia, Qualcomm, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, Tune Talk Mobile Prepaid and the Foundation for Women’s Education and Vocational Training joined forces to enhance womens’ skills and knowledge in business and technology through the Mentoring Women in Business Program. The program provides participants with business training along with a mentorship program that empowers and encourages women entrepreneurs. By the end of 2014, 150 women entrepreneurs have completed the intensive ICT, business, and English training, and received a tablet and data plan.