New report on gender equality at work in Asia Pacific, India Struggles to Define Relations with ‘Special Partner’ Russia

Asia Pacific region hosts the best and worst performers in the world for gender equality at work
Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore showing uneven progress towards gender equality in the workplace
SPF and Equileap partnered to evaluate publicly listed companies based on 19 gender equality criteria, and published a report on gender equality at work for APAC’s key developed economies – Australia, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Hong Kong), Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore. This report provides the state of gender equality in the workplace per market and sectors as well as ranking of companies according to their overall gender equality score, based on 19 criteria such as equal pay, female representation, paid parental leave and anti-sexual harassment policies.

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