Equal Pay Day 2025: Why Intersectional Data Matters
For Equal Pay Day 2025, Business in the Community is highlighting the need for intersectional pay gap reporting, and how employers can take action to close pay inequality.
Gender Equality
Gender Equality
Explore the role of gender inclusion in fostering better employee and business outcomes, and discover resources and bespoke guidance on how organisations can take a strategic approach to support gender equality in their workplace.
Creating a more gender-equal future
We believe that UK businesses have the power and responsibility to progress gender equality and stand firm in the ethic and economic importance of a workplace where all genders can thrive.
Business in the Community’s (BITC) gender campaign exists to accelerate this progress towards a gender-equal future and encourage UK business to unlock the value of gender equality for all:
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Our Campaign Objectives
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Empower UK businesses to take bold action on gender equality
BITC has been campaigning on gender equality for over three decades, remaining steadfast in our belief that businesses have the power to be a force for good. As structural and cultural barriers to workplace gender equality persist, with the rapidly evolving landscape presenting unforeseen further challenges for gender equality in UK business, our campaign exists to future-proof gender equality, ensuring inclusion stands firmly on the agenda.
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Unlock the economic power of a gender-equal workforce
Driving meaningful and measurable progress on gender equality is not only crucial for a thriving society, but an economic imperative for the prosperity of UK business. Gender-equal workforces benefit everyone, leading to better socioeconomic outcomes for all genders, with just a 5% increase in total number of women in employment could boost (GDP) by £125bn.
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Accelerate progress and celebrate leaders in gender inclusion
Sharing cutting-edge insight and leading practice from across business size and sector to help equip organisations in realising their gender equality ambitions. Convening, celebrating and accelerating the practice of UK businesses committed to gender inclusion through our annual flagship award, The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality. Disparities between genders in the workplace have seen incremental progress over time, a pace that has led to an estimated 40 years to close the gender pay gap in the UK and an estimated 5 generations away from obtaining gender parity globally. Further strategic action must be taken to move the dial on the known barriers to equality, delivering the impact required to ensure gender is never an inhibitor to a person’s ability to thrive.
Barriers to a gender equal workplace
Meaningful progress towards a more gender-equal world will only be achieved through addressing the systemic, root causes of inequality, while remaining agile to changes in the external environment that pose a risk to a truly inclusive future.
With every problem, there is a practice that can accelerate gender equality. Our Gender Campaign is committed to creating a future where gender is never a barrier to equality in the workplace and beyond.
While the external environment consistently evolves, our 8-step route map to gender equality and campaign resources offer a timeless guide to removing barriers to gender-inclusion. Our subject-matter expert inclusion advisors can also support your organisation in industry-leading support in prioritising gender equality in your business strategy and unlocking the business benefits of gender-equal workforces. Connect with our inclusion advisors here.
The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality
The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality is the UK’s most highly profiled and well-established listing of employers taking action to create workplaces where everyone, regardless of gender, can thrive.
It is our annual flagship award, led by Business in the Community (BITC) since 2011, which celebrates the achievements and the impactful efforts of organisations that have been at the forefront of championing gender equality in the workplace. The 2026 application cycle is live now.
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Gender equality blog spotlight
Gender equality resources and next steps
Get in touch with the gender team
Business in the Community on gender and gender identity inclusion in our Gender Equality Campaign
Our Gender Equality Campaign is grounded in a commitment to gender equality and inclusivity. We recognise that gender is not binary, and we affirm the diverse identities and expressions that exist across the gender spectrum.
Gender equality means ensuring individuals of all gender identities have equal rights, opportunities, and recognition. For the purposes of our campaign, the term “women” is inclusive of all who identify as such, regardless of sex assigned at birth or gender expression, aligned with our values of equity, respect, and representation for all.
Gender at work frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Despite its potential, generative AI and greater automation can create inequality if not thoughtfully implemented, with the groups who face the largest societal disadvantage will be the ones disproportionately impacted. Our factsheet on the gendered impacts of AI explores potential negative implications for women in job disruption, underrepresentation in development and bias.
The Times Top 50 for Gender Equality is the UK’s most highly profiled and well-established listing of employers taking action to create workplaces where everyone, regardless of Gender can thrive. The annual flagship award provides a comprehensive assessment of employer efforts to progress on gender equity and celebrates the achievements of organisations enacting meaningful change.
At Business in the Community (BITC) we encourage all employers to talk openly about the gender pay gap, the average gap between men and women’s earnings in the UK. Access our gender pay gap reporting dashboard and toolkits to understand how to understand one of the most stubborn gender inequalities in more detail.
