Companies that value female staff members do better, appraisal says

Companies that value their female employees tend to perform better financially, according to a recent appraisal by UN Women and Zhaopin, an online recruitment platform in Beijing.

The appraisal showed that companies who had received its best employers for female workers award saw an average year-on-year rise in profit of 28.45 percent, compared with 14.32 percent for those that did not.

The appraisal aims to identify enterprises that support gender quality, equal pay for equal work and empowering the development of female employees.