Girl power | The businesses doing well at gender equality

• Bloomberg’s latest Gender Equality Index lifts the list on what major firms are doing to improve their diversity

• From AstraZeneca to Zurich, more than 400 firms have shown a commitment to change.

• And although it's clearly an important metric, why exactly is this?

Bloomberg has recently published its 2022 Gender Equality Index helping to bring transparency to gender-related practices and policies at publicly-listed companies around the world, and increasing the breadth and depth of environmental, social, governance (ESG) data available to investors.