Concept: Custom Label for Gender

If you want to use a different term for gender throughout Workday, access the

Maintain Custom Labels

task to override the term and select

Global

on the

Term Context

prompt. Example: you can use a term such as sex or sex assigned at birth instead of gender. Using a custom label for gender can help compliance with government regulatory requirements in Canada.

Workday displays the custom label instead of the default label in:

Field labels.
Help text.
Prompts.
Task names.
Validations.
Workday-delivered report fields and report names.

Custom labels can't replace gender in certain fields required by government agencies:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) VDSA integration:
Beneficiary Sex Code report field.
Gender - CMS label.
UK Government:
Gender Pay Gap
Current Gender label in the RTI FPS report.

In addition, you can't override the term gender in the gender identity value on the

Maintain Custom Labels

task.