Home » HR practices » Diversity » India: Starbucks announces it has achieved gender pay equity and will continue to raise the female employee participation rate India: Starbucks announces it has achieved gender pay equity and will continue to raise the female employee participation rate Through . Published on 12 November 2019 à 11h29 - Update on 14 November 2019 à 15h54 Resources On 05 November 2019, Tata Starbucks, a 50/50 joint-venture between Tata Global Beverages and the Californian Starbucks company announced in a statement (here in English) that its female participation rate had risen by 15 percentage points and that it had achieved its gender pay equity objective. Although female labor participation rates are falling in India, at Tata Starbucks, ‘women now make up 29 percent of its workforce (Ed. note: this percentage was 14% in 2014), a key gender diversity milestone toward its goal to achieve 40 percent gender diversity by 2022.’ In the sales division the female percentage is 35%. India is the fourth country in which Starbucks ‘partner’ staff can now enjoy gender pay equity, the other three being the USA, as of 2018, and both Canada and China, as of March 2019. Starbucks currently has 150 sales outlets in India, employing roughly 2,000. Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst nameLast nameOrganizationFunctionemail* Object of the messageYour messageCommentsThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications What type of employment status will platform workers hold? Planet Labor updates its comparison of several countries’ regulatory responses CSR: support for caregiving employees, a new challenge for companies Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels