On Jan. 23, As You Sow and Women of the World Endowment sponsored a webinar on gender-lens investing. We discussed how to build market awareness of gender-lens investing products to help scale investments that support gender equality.
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Now it’s 2019, and, for the first time ever, there is no company in the S&P 500 that has an all-male board. Companies with leading talent management practices were more than four times as likely to have a critical mass (three) of female directors than companies considered talent management laggards.
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It was the hook that drew me into the arena of impact investing. I first heard about the concept of gender-lens investing from the innovative people at Criterion Institute 10 years ago.
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The U.S. Women’s World Cup win has put the need for fair pay policies back into discussion. Of course, the usual arguments against this concept are also in play.
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These 12 indicators measure policies that demonstrate a commitment to gender diversity and gender balance in the overall leadership, management, and workforce of companies, combining into an overall gender equality portfolio score for each mutual fund.
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Numerous studies show women are paid less than their male counterparts. This is a key challenge for companies as they face reputational risk, consumer backlash, new legislation and governmental and employee lawsuits.
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To power Gender Equality Funds and help you invest your values, we combined two detailed data sources: company gender equality data from Equileap and mutual fund holdings data from Morningstar.
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Fast Company‘s third annual World Changing Ideas Awards drew nearly 2,000 submissions across 17 categories.
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In The XX Factor: A Comprehensive Framework to Improve the Lives of Women & Girls, we highlighted which data can help philanthropic funders understand where their help may be most needed.
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Gender equality is a fundamental issue of justice. In the U.S., full-time female workers earn $10,000 less than men: that’s simply not fair. At the same time, the business case for gender balance is now impossible to ignore.
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On average, American women are more educated than men. For decades, women have earned more bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctorate degrees than men. Yet women in the U.S. workforce still earn less than their male counterparts.
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