About the data

Including the participation of affected women stakeholders and gender experts in a company's due diligence processes shows that a company is taking steps to understand, address, prevent and remedy gender specific issues in the supply chain.

In this question you are being asked to identify whether the company discloses how it involves potentially affected women, women’s organisations, women human rights defenders and gender experts in all stages of its human rights due diligence.

Where to look for this information:
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- In Modern Slavery Statement or California Transparency Act disclosure
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Company documents
- Company policies
- Company websites
- Company code of conduct
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company policies (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company websites (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company code of conduct (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)

Good keywords for your searches include:
- Due Diligence
- Risk Assessment
- Gender Equality
- Women
- Stakeholders

Things to keep in mind:
- This point can only be give if they describe the process for involving potentially affected women in ALL aspects of human rights due diligence