Working with the H&M Foundation to develop a collective impact initiative to improve the quality of life for waste pickers in Bengaluru, India.In partnership with our dedicated and passionate foundation, corporate, and nonprofit clients, some of our most recent engagements include : In the coming months, we plan to share our insights, lessons, and approaches to advancing the field more broadly. We must co-create gender-responsive strategies and solutions that include men and boys and that offer more effective routes to achieving equal outcomes in women’s and girl’s education, employment, health, and ultimately economic empowerment. We are committed to bringing a pragmatic, holistic, and sensitive approach to exploring the role gender plays in contributing to the holding in place of seemingly insurmountable (or hidden) problems.

Companies must consider how their products and services serve the needs of women to derive competitive advantage, while also preparing for shareholders to demand more demonstrable progress towards gender equity across all levels of their workforces and supply chains.Īs part of our commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, FSG is fiercely dedicated to supporting our clients to better serve the needs of women and men, and close the inequity gap.

Deeply embedded values, biases, and mindsets that guide our daily interactions and views of the world, such as valuing paid employment over unpaid care work and working in office jobs in the city center over frontline service-sector and domestic workers?Īs we enter 2020, shifting mindsets, power dynamics, policies, and practices will be vital for us to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5 “ Women’s Equality and Empowerment.”įoundations and nonprofit organizations will need to bring a gender perspective to their strategic planning processes, data gathering activities, and learning practices.Decisions were being made by those in power that reflected only their experience and needs, namely those driving into the office on snowy days?.Policies and practices were designed without triangulating data sources from different public sector departments or utilizing sex-disaggregated data to highlight different experiences and outcomes of men versus women?.So why were women in Sweden suffering a disproportionate amount of winter injuries? Was it because: By clearing paths first, accidents decreased by half and saved the local government money. The estimated cost of these falls was SKr36m per winter, about USD$3.7m / £3m / €3.4m / Indian ₹279m. There was a cost to all this: 79% of pedestrian injuries occurred in winter, of which 69% were women. Foot- and cycle-paths were cleared last-not so good for pedestrians and cyclists, who were very often women traveling with children in pushchairs. In the winter, snow was cleared first on main roads leading into the city, benefiting commuters-who were mostly men. Sure enough, they found the routine of clearing snow typically benefited men over women. “At least snow-clearing was something those ‘gender people’ can keep their noses out of” an official in Karlskoga, Sweden, was reported to remark.Īnd so the Swedish gender equality initiative team began to explore whether snow clearing was sexist. “It all started as a joke…” So begins the first chapter of Caroline Criado Perez’s book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.

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