Global status in 2025
The UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 notes that women now hold 27 per cent of parliamentary seats worldwide, up from 22 per cent a decade ago, and that child marriage is in decline — yet systemic disadvantages continue to affect women across economies and public life, and progress towards legal and de facto equality remains too slow to reach parity by 2030.
Source: United Nations, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025.
European and Albanian context
In European labour markets, occupational segregation and the gender pay gap persist despite strong legal frameworks. In recruitment, the decisive intervention points are the fairness of screening, the transparency of pay, and the refusal to replicate clients' discriminatory preferences.
NOVARIC® implementation commitments
- Apply blind first-stage screening, removing name, gender, age and origin markers before competency assessment.
- Conduct periodic pay-equity audits across NOVARIC® operations and publish corrective actions internally.
- Decline client briefs containing discriminatory criteria and record such refusals in the compliance register.
- Monitor gender balance at every stage of the recruitment funnel to detect and correct attrition bias.
Key performance indicators
Measured through the Manual's 90-indicator register (browse the full register):
- DEI-01 Blind-screening coverage
- DEI-03 Gender pay-gap audit results
- DEI-05 Funnel gender-parity ratio
- GOV-08 Discriminatory-brief refusal log
NOVARIC®'s blind first-stage screening strips identifying characteristics from candidate files before competency review. Funnel data is reviewed quarterly by series and role family; where stage-by-stage parity diverges beyond tolerance, the screening protocol is audited and corrected.