Japan Workforce
Gender Diversity Data

FROM MSCI ESG RESEARCH LLC

The MSCI ESG Japan Workforce Gender Diversity Data is designed to help institutional investors, banks andinsurers, assess companies’ workforce gender diversity performance to help inform their investment, financing
and underwriting decisions.

With coverage of top 700 Japanese companies, the data
set is based on the diversity data used in the MSCI Japan
Empowering Women Index (WIN).
The MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN), launchedin 2017, is constructed using the MSCI Japan IMI Top 700Index While there are many ways that companies can support

Sample factors• Average Years Employed by the Company for
Female Employees• Average Years Employed by the Company forMale Employees

women’s participation and advancement in the workforce,• Gender Diversity Performance Score

the simplest and most straightforward measure of their• Gender Diversity Score

effectiveness is to look at the percentage of women among
various segments of the company’s workforce.

• Number of Women Directors on the Board• Number of Women Employees in New Hires

Key features and benefits• Total Number of Directors on the Board

Extensive and Unique Data

• Total Number of Employees in Senior Management

While there are many ways that companies can support• Total Number of Newly Hired Employees

women’s participation and advancement in the workforce,• Total Workforce

the simplest and most straightforward measure of theireffectiveness is to look at the percentage of women among
various segments of the company’s workforce.

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Data dictionary highlights
Factor type

Factor nameFactor description

Underlying DataYear

This data represents the year of captured gender diversity data

Underlying Data

Number of women employees in new hires

This data represents number of women employees in new hires

Underlying Data

Total number of newly hired employees

This data represents total number of newly hired employees

Underlying Data

Percentage of women employees inThis data represents percentage of women employees in

new hiresnew hires

Score

Score: Percentage of women employees in
new hires

This data represents the year of captured gender diversity data

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Workforce gender diversity score

Gender diversity performance score

The company’s Workforce Gender Diversity Score is computed

Gender diversity
performance score(Weight: 75%)

as the weighted average of the Workforce Gender Diversity
Performance Score (75%) and Workforce Gender Diversity
Practices Score (25%). It aims to capture the importance ofcurrent regional performance and at the same time provide
an indication of companies’ forward-looking policies andprograms to empower women in the workforce.

Gender diversity
performanceinterim score:
average of 5
performance
metrics score

Gender diversity
performance
disclosure discount:deduction to interim
performance scorebased on availabilityof 5 metrics

Gender diversity
practices score(Weight: 25%)
Gender diversity
practices score(Weight: 25%)
average of 2 policies
and programs
metrics scores

Publication updates and quality review
Sources

Quality review & monitoring

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare;Companies are monitored on a systematic and ongoingand corporate documents such as annual reports, corporatebasis for the number of women on the board due tosocial responsibility reports, securities filings, andrelatively frequent changes in the board composition

company websites.

Initial company research and analysis is followed by aMedia sources such as global and local news agencies,

rigorous quality assurance process at all stages of rating

NGO publications

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