The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2026 announced
The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2026 announced
Business in the Community (BITC) has today announced The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2026, recognising organisations across the UK that are leading the way in creating equitable and inclusive workplaces.
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 their gender, can thrive. The process is designed and assessed by Business in the Community and promoted by The Times.
The annual awards process recognises employers that are embedding gender equality into all levels of their organisations.
This year’s list reflects the continued commitment of leading employers to drive meaningful change. The results of the 2026 process demonstrated the need for employers to build digital and AI-related skills, have clear policies that support marginalised genders at work, provide pay transparency, continue to make flexible working a reality by default, and set gender targets throughout management levels, as well as ensuring they analyse key workforce data intersectionally and positively influence their stakeholders, especially their supply chains.
Employers are being urged to accelerate action by embedding flexible working, ensuring equitable support for parents and carers, increasing transparency around pay, and taking an intersectional approach to addressing barriers across the workforce.
The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality continues to set the benchmark for responsible business practice, celebrating organisations that are not only making progress within their own workplaces but also helping to drive wider change across sectors.
Ultimately, BITC’s ambition for The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality is that it not only boosts the organisations that are included but also acts as a catalyst for wider change – encouraging more businesses to begin or accelerate their journey toward gender equality.
Ndidi Okezie OBE, Chief Executive of Business in the Community, said:
The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2026
This year, three companies achieved One-to-Watch status, narrowly missing the Top 50, but impressing BITC with their commitment to gender equality and inclusivity in the workplace:
Fulham Football Club
Leeds Building Society
Smartest Energy
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About Business in the Community
Business in the Community (BITC) champions responsible business as essential for long term economic growth and resilience.
It is the UK’s leading responsible business network, working with companies of all sizes to tackle society’s most pressing challenges from climate change and place-based community regeneration to inequality, workplace wellbeing, and inclusive growth.
Founded by His Majesty King Charles III in 1982, BITC has over four decades of experience in engaging business and delivering measurable impact in both business and in communities through evidence-based interventions.