Introducing Enhanced Employee Gender

This release of Dayforce provides a new way to define employees' gender and gender identity information. Previously, you couldn't edit gender values in Dayforce. Now, you can modify gender and gender identity values on a geographic basis using Enhanced Employee Gender. Enhanced Employee Gender is a set of features in Dayforce that fully replace the previous gender and gender identity options provided. Specifically, you can now record the following information for employees:

Assigned Sex: A designation generally used in the legal or medical context, particularly where data relating to biological factors is required. In Dayforce, the information in this field is used to support applicable legal requirements, such as demographic data reporting or benefit enrollment. This field replaces the legacy term gender.
Gender Identity: An individual’s personal identification of gender, which may or may not correlate with assigned sex. The information in this field is not reported to external state or government authorities or used by Dayforce for external reporting unless explicitly stated.

These changes reflect the fact that gender identity is essentially a personal construct for defining one's gender, rather than a legal term. Alternatively, assigned sex is the employee’s legal gender for the geographic area that they work or live in.

You can expand a country to see its values. Some are system defaults that can't be changed. For example, Germany has four system default values for assigned sex: Male, Female, Diverse, and Indeterminate:

For general information about using Enhanced Employee Gender, see the Enhanced Employee Gender Guide.

For detailed technical information about Enhanced Employee Gender, see the Enhanced Employee Gender Playbook.