Nieroda, Marzena;
Allen, Orlanda;
Tomini, Sonila;
Posso, Dania;
Hoppe, Lucy;
Bashir, Nadhia;
Sultana, Parveen;
... Colton, Nora; + view all
(2025)
Advancing Women's Health in the Workplace.
(GBSH Thought Leaders Digest
).
UCL Global Business School for Health: London, UK.
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Abstract
Women’s health is a strategic workforce issue yet remains insufficiently addressed across most organisations. Key health events such as menstruation, fertility treatment, miscarriage, menopause, and chronic illness are often unsupported, affecting productivity, retention, and leadership progression. To explore solutions, UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH), supported by HCA Healthcare UK, convened 29 senior leaders for the Thought Leaders Series for Women’s Health in March 2025. The event featured expert-led workshops and roundtables that combined systems thinking—to examine how interconnected workplace factors impact women’s health—and journey mapping to trace women’s experiences across different life and career stages. From these discussions, five critical dimensions emerged: physical, mental, social, financial, and environmental needs, each playing a key role in shaping women’s workplace experiences throughout their careers. Key insights highlight the need for: • Tailored health policies leveraging Digital Health solutions • Flexible and inclusive career development pathways • Financial wellbeing strategies that account for caregiving responsibilities and career breaks • Culturally safe, psychologically supportive environments • Cross-sector collaboration to drive systemic change GBSH calls for women’s health to be embedded into core business strategy through governance structures, health equity audits, and accountability frameworks. These should be underpinned by metrics and KPIs to ensure measurable progress, unlocking innovation, equity, and long-term workforce resilience.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Advancing Women's Health in the Workplace |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-business-school-healt... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209339 |
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