Number of female employees who were promoted from within the organization during the reporting period.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used.
This metric is intended to capture the number of unique, female individuals promoted by the organization during the reporting period and who were in full- or part-time roles as of the end of the reporting period. This metric excludes Temporary Employees (OI9028). Organizations are encouraged to footnote in which roles and levels employees promoted began and ended the reporting period.
Promotion (or career advancement) is defined as the movement of an employee who already works for the organization to a higher grade level either within the same department or to another department as a result of a change in duties, not a market adjustment in salary. For more, see the Society for Human Resource Management (https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/policies/pages/job-posting-policy---staff-promotions.aspx).
This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact. It may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.
This is a submetric of Employees Promoted: Total (OI6995), which has 0 other related submetrics.
Metrics identified as "cross-category" are those that are relevant to any IRIS+ Impact Category or Impact Theme (i.e., these metrics are not specific to any particular industry/category or theme).
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
Immaterial change. Minor revisions to definition and usage guidance for clarity.
May 2021 - IRIS v5.2 Released
Immaterial change. Minor revision to usage guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released
No change.
May 2019 - IRIS v5.0 Released
New metric. Developed via IRIS+ core metrics sets.
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