SINGAPORE Post (SingPost) has blazed a trail for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in Singapore, becoming the first major listed company to measure and report non-binary gender statistics.

In its sustainability report for the year ended March 2023, SingPost added the category “Non-binary, gender diverse or unknown” for statistics on the gender composition of its workforce and on training hours. The report stated that 55.5 per cent of the company’s employees were male, 44.1 per cent were female, and 0.1 per cent were non-binary, gender diverse or unknown.

Checks done by The Business Times show that SingPost is the only one among the 50 largest companies by market capitalisation – as at Aug 24 – listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to disclose non-binary gender statistics. A spokesperson from SingPost said that the company established its diversity and inclusion policy in the 2022 to 2023 financial year, and included non-binary as a category to “promote greater inclusiveness”.