Equileap was set up to accelerate progress toward gender equality...[and] was created in the light of repeated independent research showing that gender diverse companies tend to produce higher financial returns and have lower risk...Equal pay and more broadly, equal opportunities at work are powerful levers to grow global prosperity: they have the potential to take million of women and their families out of poverty and move us closer to achieving the Substainable Develoment Goals...

The 2017 Gender Equality Global Reportand Ranking sits at the heart of Equileap's strategy to accelerate gender equality in the work place. It is part of a comprehensive tool-kit deisgned to make the gender performance of companies transparent amd comparable and to enable corporations to understand how they can improve performance. It will:

• Help investors discover which companies lead the field in terms of gender balance so they can invest with a gender lens aiming to make a difference and a return;
• Give the public, corporate leaders and employees independent information about which companies treat both genders fairly over the long-term 
• Enable governments and other procuring organisations to screen commpanies for gender equality...

Equileap will update this report and ramking annually- so that we can track each company's performance over time.