The [w]Health Employer Index is designed to help organizations across industries take meaningful, measurable action to advance women’s health in the workplace. Because women’s health directly shapes workforce participation, productivity, and long-term economic outcomes, employers have both the ability and the responsibility to act. The Index provides a structured framework to translate intent into accountability, enabling organizations to assess current practices, benchmark progress against peers, and identify concrete opportunities to strengthen impact.

To build a comprehensive and comparable view, the Index combines structured surveys with qualitative insights from employers across industries, regions, and organization sizes. The analysis focuses on workplace practices, benefits design, education, data use, and investment approaches that directly influence women’s health outcomes at work. By grounding assessment in employer-relevant levers, the Index ensures that results reflect real-world decision-making and operational realities.

The Index assesses employer maturity across six key levers of action that shape women’s health outcomes at work:

• Shape agenda through advocacy and leadership, using employer influence to elevate women’s health in policy discussions, industry coalitions, and public discourse.
• Build awareness and education, equipping employees, managers, and leaders with the knowledge needed to recognize and address women’s health needs across life stages.
• Design inclusive workplace policies, including flexibility, leave, and support structures that enable women to remain engaged and productive.
• Embed women’s health into benefits and care access, ensuring coverage, affordability, and navigation reflect women’s real health needs.
• Get serious about data and employee voice, by collecting, analyzing, and acting on gender-disaggregated insights, feedback, and outcomes.
• Accelerate investment, aligning resources, partnerships, and capital allocation with women’s health priorities.

Each organization is mapped against these levers using four maturity stages. Exploring indicates that women’s health is beginning to enter the agenda, with limited data and early discussions. Advancing reflects growing momentum, with policies or programs in place, though often fragmented. Transforming signals that women’s health has become a strategic priority, embedded in cross-functional decision-making, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms. At the highest level, leading organizations set the standard by influencing broader ecosystems, investing at scale, and extending impact beyond their own workforce.