Women4Growth

Swedfund’s Women4Growth program can help unlock opportunities of everyone in the workforce and leverage the existing talent of an organization. It is based on the notion that participants are the experts of their own experiences, and not only subject of bias in the workplace and in society at large, but more importantly possess the capacity and solutions to solve gender-biased problems.

The program is developed to; enable talent growth and support gender equal representation in decision making; improve gender inclusion in the workplace; and co-create products and services that can support gender equality and inclusion in society, simultaneously as boosting company results. These objectives are also aligned with the 2X Criteria.  

Since the Women4Growth program was initiated by Swedfund in 2014, it has evolved and contributed to concrete initiatives that partaking companies have been able to endorse immediately. The program has also sparked ideas and solutions with potential to improve results in the longer term.

Some suggestions and initiatives:

• Flexible work shifts and lactation rooms
• Late night transportation and improved communication and reporting channels
• Mentorship programs and training initiatives for career development
• Gender separate changing rooms and gender separate toilets 

Some long-term results:

• Improved employee retention rates
• Promotions
• Increased job productivity
• Talent attraction

Click here  for more information and to log in as Women4Growth participant or alumna.