With the continuous development and progress of society, the importance of women in the workplace has gradually become prominent, but they still have to face various challenges in the workplace.

In order to create a friendlier workplace environment for female employees, on the occasion of the 114th International Women's Day, the new Chinese beauty group, Yixian Group, officially announced the launch of the “Women-Friendly Workplace Plan” and plans to create a women-friendly workplace in the three dimensions of health care, diverse benefits, and future growth, becoming the first beauty company in the industry to propose a women-friendly workplace.

Yixian Group Announces Women-Friendly Workplace Plan

Female-friendly workplace environment, newly upgraded

The “March 8th” International Women's Day was established to celebrate the important contributions and great achievements made by women in the political, economic and social fields. Today, this anniversary has gone through more than 100 years. This year, UN Women selected “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress (Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress)” as the theme for this International Women's Day, calling on all parties to invest more in promoting gender equality, unleash women's potential, and create an equal future together.

According to the “2024 Survey Report on the Current Status of Women in the Workplace in China” published by a third-party recruitment platform, the average monthly salary of women in the workplace was 8,958 yuan, and the gender pay gap was 12.9%; 33.1% of women were not promoted smoothly due to gender, but only 9.2% of men would influence their salary increases due to gender; in addition, 48.8% of women said they had been asked about marriage and childbearing during job searches.

As a domestic beauty group with mainly female users, Yixian Group also has a predominantly female group, accounting for 78% of employees. At Yixian, it is no longer new for women to take on important positions, and they have the same smooth career path as men. One key figure is that women make up more than 45% of Yixian Group's management team. Women have full voice and broad development space in Yixian Group.

Since its establishment in 2016, Yixian Group has always been committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and fair workplace environment. While cultivating outstanding talents, it focuses on the career development of women in the workplace and values the work experience and physical and mental health of female employees. Yixian Group not only holds park tours with different themes every year on Women's Day on March 8th, regularly distributes gifts and other benefits, arranges free “two cancers” screening programs, public welfare makeup services, etc.; it also sets up a special mother and child room to protect the daily needs of working mothers.

Yixian Group has set up a special mother and child room

With outstanding performance in talent development, employee care, corporate culture and value building, in December of last year, Yixian Group stood out from 506 domestic and foreign companies, won the “2023 DEI Employer Award”, and became one of the top 50 companies with well-known domestic and foreign companies such as Novartis Group, HSBC, Carlsberg China, and Erie. Meanwhile, in the latest ESG rating released by MSCI, the world's largest index company, at the end of 2022, Yixian Group's ESG rating was upgraded to A, which is a sustainable leading level of international certification.

In order to continue to promote corporate ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) and DEI Strategy (DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), in the “Yixian Group Female Friendly Workplace Plan” released this time, Yixian Group further proposed a package of upgrade plans, covering a series of measures such as workplace equality, women's care, women's health, women's fertility, and women's growth, to create the best workplace for women in all aspects.

At the launch of the “Female Friendly Workplace Project”, Sun Lei, the chief marketing officer of Yixian Group, delivered a speech on site as a female management representative. She said that the company's rapid development in recent years is inseparable from the driving force of 78% of female employees behind this, and thanked every female employee for their full commitment and contribution. “Women's potential is limitless; their creativity is limitless. Therefore, we must strive to create a friendly environment where every female employee can develop their full potential and value.” she said.

Sun Lei, Chief Marketing Officer of Yixian Group, delivered a speech

Caring for female employees and creating a warm workplace

On Women's Day on March 8th, Yixian Group continued the “No Limits Wmenou” theme. As always, it not only held a fun garden tour, but was also pleasantly surprised to announce that female employees can enjoy a half-day vacation on the same day, so that all female employees can relax their body and mind and be themselves during their busy work.

In addition, female employees can also flexibly arrange this vacation within March with proper work arrangements. This humane vacation schedule once again reflects Yixian Group's “people-oriented” management philosophy.

Yixian Group Women's Day Garden Tour

Next, Yixian Group's ingenuity in caring for women will be displayed in every corner of the company. The women's restroom plan is to add a BEAUTY shared corner: free daily necessities such as rubber bands, mouthwash, makeup remover, and dental floss sticks are provided, so that female employees can maintain their best condition at any time.

In addition, the company will also launch a series of emergency services for women, providing emergency sanitary napkins, baby warmers, etc., and will also post emergency codes and help channels in bathrooms to provide emergency assistance to female employees in emergency situations. The detailed cultural arrangements created a workplace environment full of belonging and security for the Group's female employees.

Although others are concerned about whether you fly high or not, Yixian Group is more concerned about your physical and mental health. In order to improve the health level and awareness of female employees, the Yixian Trade Union will continue to promote free special screening for breast cancer and cervical cancer in the future to benefit more female workers.

Yixian Group provides free screening for two cancers for female employees

For many women, menstrual periods are prone to physical discomfort such as dysmenorrhea. According to data from the American Academy of Family Physicians, one-fifth of women worldwide find it difficult to live a normal life due to dysmenorrhea. In order to reduce the physical burden on female employees during menstruation, the latest holiday regulations issued by Yixian Group state that female employees can freely choose to work from home for 0.5 days a month without a sick leave slip. This is certainly a blessing for the vast number of female employees.

At the same time, Yixian Group fully takes into account the physiological characteristics and needs of women in commercial insurance purchased for employees, and covers coverage for women's special diseases. Among the company's new medical examination benefits, it has also specially set up three gynecological examinations, uterine ultrasound, and breast ultrasonography for women.

In the future, Yixian Group will also conduct lectures on women's health knowledge and popular science activities, inviting professionals from medical institutions to popularize science-related health knowledge for female employees, guide everyone to pay attention to their own health and better protect the health of female employees.

Caring for female employees, making the right balance between career and family

Based on the physiological considerations of female employees, Yixian Group provides caring care from pregnancy and childbirth to the “third phase” of breastfeeding.

For pregnant mothers, the Yixian Group employee restaurant will open a “green channel for pregnant mothers” to provide priority meal pickup or delivery services. In addition, on the basis of statutory maternity leave, Yixian Group also allows pregnant mothers to apply for an additional 0.5 days of flexible maternity examination time per month under special physical conditions to meet the diverse needs of pregnant mothers.

Yixian Group Women's Day Garden Tour

Meanwhile, for working mothers returning to work after maternity leave, the group will also provide a series of support to break the marginalization of the workplace, and simultaneously upgrade the equipment in the mother and child room, so that female employees returning to the workplace can feel the warmth of the family, gradually adapt to the new work pace, and achieve balance between family and work.

As the “mother family” of female employees, the Women's Working Committee of the Yixian Trade Union will also continue to pay attention to the workplace environment of female employees, collaborate with the company to promote workplace standards through institution-building, actively safeguard the legal rights and benefits of female employees, carry out various activities beneficial to women's physical and mental health, and provide diverse support for Yixian women in the development of the workplace.

Xu Zhenjie, Chief Human Resources Officer of Yixian Group, said, “With the support of the company's management, party committee, trade union and other departments, our women-friendly workplace program will provide a series of support and resources to ensure that our female employees receive fair opportunities, equal treatment and thoughtful exclusive services, so that more women in the workplace can be understood, their physical and mental care, and value recognized, so that unique beauty can blossom freely.”

Today, the power of women is making an impact in every field that cannot be ignored. Yixian Group has also been committed to listening to “her voice” and conveying the power of women to every corner of the world. Over the years, Yixian Group has spared no effort in promoting various public welfare undertakings for women, and continues to use technology and expertise to help women discover, protect, and create beauty. Among them, the “Create a Beautiful Life” beauty charity training program created by the group has been around for more than three years. Up to now, it has helped nearly 300 struggling women master professional beauty skills and actively start businesses and work in the field of beauty.

Yixian Group's “Create a Beautiful Life” Beauty Charity Training Program

In the future, Yixian Group will continue to empower women through diverse and inclusive training courses and creative activities, create more development opportunities, help female talents achieve self-worth, and enable more and more female employees to develop “her” strength in the workplace.