Tracking Gender Equality in Fashion with Open Data: Get Involved!
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a time to honor women’s achievements and drive gender equality forward. In the fashion industry, where 80% of textile workers and 75% of retail staff are women, their importance is undeniable. But how well are fashion companies supporting gender equality?
At Wikirate, we believe in the power of open data to track progress and hold companies accountable. Our collaborative dataset, Tracking the Impacts of Fashion Companies on Gender Equality, provides crucial insights into industry trends. Covering 61 fashion brands and 14 key metrics from 2019 to 2023, this data set examines pay gaps, leadership representation, workplace policies, and more.
The findings? While women make up most of the workforce, their representation in management and board positions barely reaches 40%, CEOs remain overwhelmingly male, and the gender pay gap persists at 20–30%. The good news? Many brands have policies on violence prevention, parental leave, and leadership goals for women. The challenge? Few provide transparency or hard data, especially on living wages.
Help us update the data!
To keep tracking progress, we need fresh data. Sign up as a volunteer to help us gather the latest information from company reports and disclosures. Your contribution will fuel transparency and accountability in the fashion industry.
Don’t miss other valuable resources available on Wikirate
Another vital source for data on gender equality is the UK Company Gender Pay Gap Dataset. This dataset contains gender pay gap data reported by UK companies from 2018 to 2023 under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information).
Collected by the Gender Pay Gap Service, the data set includes 10,925 companies and 15 key metrics, such as median and mean gender pay gaps, bonus disparities, and workforce distribution by pay quartile. The dataset provides insights into pay inequalities between men and women in the UK workforce and serves as a valuable resource for research, policy evaluation, and corporate accountability. Wikirate updates the data set as more data becomes available.
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Acknowledgements
Wikirate extends its sincere thanks to Pooja Yadav, as well as to the dedicated volunteers and students whose contributions have made this dataset possible over the years.
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Suggested attributions
Wikirate.org, ‘Tracking the Impacts of Fashion Companies on Gender Equality’ by the Wikirate Community, licensed under CC BY 4.0
Wikirate.org, ‘UK Company Gender Pay Gap Data’ by Vasiliki Gkatziaki, licensed under CC BY 4.0
Wikirate.org, ‘Top 100 Fashion Project — UK Gender Pay Gap’ by Aileen Rob, licensed under CC BY 4.0
