Gender Ratio of Promotions (PI9467)

This metric is intended to capture what proportion of employees promoted within an organization during the reporting period are women. Organizations are encouraged to footnote the roles and levels in which employees promoted began and ended the reporting period.

This metric should exclude Temporary Employees (OI9028).

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).

In specific contexts, and based on evidence, this metric may serve as a proxy indicator of whether the outcome being sought by an investor or organization is occurring (the WHAT dimension of impact). 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.