Attracting, Retaining and Promoting Women in the Workplace is Good for Business: Lessons from the Mashreq

Expanding women’s employment in the private sector is imperative to increase female labor force participation in Mashreq countries. This knowledge brief identifies lessons learned from the IFC-led business case studies on firms that devise and implement policies to improve gender diversity in the workplace under the Mashreq Gender Facility (MGF), enriched by a literature review. It proposes specific actions firms can take under four areas: (a) committing & communicating to gender diversity; (b) attracting female talent; (c) retaining women in the workforce; (d) promoting women to more senior positions.