Blogs

Blogs

Apr 2024

Why should companies report on gender-specific data?

Gender diversity related disclosures are particularly important for a country like Pakistan, which has one of the lowest ranks of…

Aug 2023

UN Women conducts workshop on Transparency and Accountability for Gender Equality

Aug 16, Karachi, Pakistan – UN Women Pakistan in collaboration with The Center of Excellence in Responsible Business and Pakistan…

Aug 2023

Jazz announced as the winner at the 2nd “IFC-PBC Employer of Choice” Gender Diversity Awards

Joint Press Release from IFC and PBC Karachi, Pakistan, August 8, 2023—Jazz, a multi-sector telecom provider, was announced on Aug…

Oct 2021

Why Transparency in Pakistan’s Private Sector is Crucial to Gender Diversity

On 28th September 2021, the Pakistan Business Council (PBC) launched the Gender Diversity and Disclosure in Pakistan (GDDP) Report in…

Aug 2021

Working Mothers and Childcare

This pandemic has managed to highlight the unequal burden of childcare on women, especially working women.  In Pakistan, with its…

Apr 2020

The COVID-19 Outbreak and Gender

Outbreak of diseases and pandemic often have gendered impacts that might go unnoticed in the beginning but can have serious…

Apr 2020

Family-friendly workplace redefined

With entire countries on lockdown, millions are engaging in work from home routines for the first time in their lives….

Jun 2019

Inclusivity of Differently-Abled People in the Workforce

It is estimated that more than 15% of the world’s population has some form of disability in terms of mental,…

Mar 2019

Ring the Bell Ceremony for Gender Equality 2019

The International Women’s Day (IWD), which started as a movement for demands for basic women rights such as equal pay…

Nov 2018

Breaking Boundaries: Gender Equality in the Workplace by signing the WEPs

In collaboration with UN Women Pakistan, CERB hosted two practitioner workshops on the 23rd October, in Islamabad and on the…

Aug 2018

A Review of “Pursuing Women’s Economic Empowerment – A study by the IMF”

Gender Equality is one of the 17 UN SDG’s, which provides a framework for eliminating poverty globally, ensuring that all…

Mar 2018

News Update: CERB Event for International Women’s Day

As part of our engagement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), in honor of International Women’s Day we held a…

Mar 2018

Reducing the bottlenecks to increasing gender representation in your business

When we undertook the ‘Baseline Survey on Gender Diversity in the Business Sector of Pakistan’, we identified that gender representation…