Empower women
Read more about why empowering women is such an essential part of our sustainability promise.
Meet one of our suppliers
Meet Paramount, one of our long‑term suppliers in India and a Lindex partner since 2008. Paramount employs more than 7,000 people, where women currently represent a minority of the workforce. The company has identified social sustainability and women’s empowerment as focus areas in its business values and works to integrate these topics into its business decisions and daily operations.
Supplier name: Paramount Products Pvt Ltd.
Location: India
No. of employees: 7.000
Lindex partner since: 2008
WE Women as a steppingstone
Creating awareness around gender and social issues is an important part of Paramount’s approach to women’s empowerment. The factory provides ongoing awareness training for employees on gender issues, with the aim of challenging stereotypes and supporting a more inclusive workplace. In 2021, Paramount implemented the WE Women by Lindex programme, which focuses on gender equality and inclusion. Since then, all employees have received training on gender awareness and unbiased approaches to gender, and the programme has been integrated into the factory’s ways of working.
“Lindex’s WE Women programme has played an important role in our journey towards a gender inclusive business. Thanks to the programme, we have been able to transform our commitment into strategic actions and have made gender a cross-cutting theme across business functions influencing all our business decisions. As a result of the programme, we have gotten the tools to continue the work within this area and have initiated new internal projects that will help us improve even more”
Sumit Mahajan, Executive Director at Paramount
Suppliers perspectives on well-being and performance
According to Paramount, its work on social sustainability and women’s empowerment is important both from a values perspective and for how the business is managed. The company highlights improvements in areas such as workforce stability, female representation and employee engagement, and notes that a more inclusive approach has supported the development of women into supervisory roles.
“We believe that healthy, happy, and empowered employees are a prerequisite for business sustainability. Through our empowerment work we have gained trust of our workers, a sense of belongingness and a higher commitment towards work which is reflected in better productivity and efficiency. From a business perspective it has also contributed to improve our image and reputation as a company among our business competitors and peers” says Sumit Mahajan, Executive Director at Paramount.
Paramount’s own internal projects
Project Sehat (health)
Project Sehat provides promotive, preventive and curative health services to all workers irrespective of their gender. The project covers a wide range of diseases under both communicable and non-communicable categories like diabetes, Covid-19, anaemia, hypertension, mental health and malaria.
Project Mukta (liberation)
Project Mukta aims to empower female workers towards a more fulfilling life through workplace-based-interventions on sexual and reproductive health, financial inclusion, and gender equality. The project provides free sanitary pads to workers, along with health education on important topics like menstrual hygiene, family planning, care during pregnancy, STI/RTI and safe abortion.