Giving Compass' Take:

• Johnson & Johnson is devoted to achieving gender-equitable practices in its business model by offering employee benefits in women's leadership and executing philanthropic efforts to advance women's health around the world. 

•  How can other companies emulate similar business practices to Johnson & Johnson?

• Read about what donors can do to advance gender equality. 

As a leading company in this space, who has been championing diversity for more than 130 years, Johnson & Johnson received this designation for promoting gender equality in the areas of leadership, employee policies, advertising, and philanthropy. With this designation, Johnson & Johnson joins a select cohort of companies accelerating equality such as Eli Lilly and Company, Microsoft and P&G.

“Diversity and inclusion are part of the fabric of Johnson & Johnson and is reflected in Our Credo. We have led the way since our inception when 8 out of our 14 original employees were women,” said Wanda Bryant Hope, Chief Diversity Officer at Johnson & Johnson.  “Continuing our tradition of diversity and inclusion helps us to innovate and improve so that we can change the trajectory of health for humanity.”

Johnson & Johnson is empowering women to tackle some of the greatest health challenges of the 21st century and improve global health outcomes with practices that also exceed Gender Fair Index benchmarks:

  • Employee benefits and women’s leadership -  Johnson & Johnson is the only over-the-counter/pharmaceutical company to receive a perfect score in the Gender Fair Index for family-friendly policies, as it offers up to 17 weeks of maternity and paternity leave in the first year of a child’s birth, $35,000 in fertility benefits, $20,000 in adoption assistance benefits, and other inclusive practices such as unconscious bias training.
  • Philanthropic efforts in STEM and global health disparities - Johnson & Johnson’s Health for Humanity 2020 Goals impact a billion lives in underserved areas, with programs like healthcare mobile messaging reaching 1 million mothers in India and Mom Connect, which uses WhatsApp to reach mothers in South Africa.

Johnson & Johnson leads the way in making strides towards gender equality, with time-tested policies that have been championing women for over 130 years and changing the trajectory of health for humanity

Read the full article about gender equality from Gender Fair at CSRwire