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Women in the Workplace Report 2025
The 2025 Women in the Workplace report by Lean In and McKinsey & Company builds on a decade of longitudinal data examining women’s representation, advancement, and workplace... -
Women in the Workplace Report 2023
This annual report by Lean In and McKinsey & Company analyzes data from hundreds of U.S.-based companies to assess women’s representation, advancement, and workplace... -
GEM 2022/2023 Women's Entrepreneurship: Challenging Bias and Stereotypes
This report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) analyzes women’s entrepreneurial participation across 49 economies, drawing on population surveys and national expert... -
Translating between Gender and Finance for Increased Impact: Best Practices...
This brief report by World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and Criterion Institute explores the concept of "translation" in Gender Lens Investment (GLI), which involves... -
Caring for Tomorrow: A Guide to Investing in the Care Economy
The U.S. Care Economy faces growing demand due to demographic shifts yet, it remains underfunded and overlooked by investors and policymakers. This white paper highlights... -
Applying a Gender Lens to Climate Investing: An Action Framework
Women in Finance Climate Action Group (WIFCAG) led the development of this framework by reviewing existing gender specific and climate specific frameworks and data sources,... -
Business and Social Outcomes of Gender-Smart Technical Assistance Activities...
This research by G-SEARCh consortium measured the effectiveness of seven types of gendersmart technical assistance (TA) activities provided to 21 small and medium enterprises... -
G-SEARCH tested tools & approaches for gender lens investing
A how-to guide that shares tools and approaches used by the Gender-Smart Enterprise Assistance Research Coalition (G-SEARCh), a consortium of six like-minded impact investors,... -
Driving Growth and Improved Business Performance – The Opportunity of...
This report presents the findings from a four-year initiative by Shell Foundation and Value for Women (VfW), co-funded with aid from the UK government, to further assess the... -
Engendering fiscal space: Modelling alternative methods of financing...
This paper by UN Women explains how alternative policies to promote gender equality are likely to have different effects on the various metrics of gender equality, such as... -
Engendering fiscal space: A policy framework for financing gender equality
This paper presents a unified framework on how various macro-level economic policies and external finance strategies can be used to increase funding for gender equality... -
Empowering women, building sustainable assets: Strengthening the depth of...
This report reflects on various models and challenges of gender lens investing (GLI), along with challenges they pose to feminist agendas. Not all investing practices that are... -
Gender-lens investment: The state of women in 2025
This report by UBS looks at the state of women in the world, seeking to understand the remaining barriers to attaining gender equality and progress thus far. It focuses on... -
Investing in an Equal Future: Triodos Investment Management’s vision on...
This paper by Triodos Investment Management presents their gender lens investing strategy, which intends to pave the way for a structured approach to gender in their selection... -
Impact-Linked Finance learnings
This report on Impact-Linked Finance (ILF), is based on Roots of Impact’s eight years of experience. It demonstrates ILF's potential across various financial instruments and... -
Disruptive Roles in Gender Lens Investing in Kenya
Plan International’s research provides an in-depth assessment of the gender lens investing market in Kenya. This report builds on existing research through consultations with... -
Bridging the Finance Gap for Women Entrepreneurs: Insights from Academic and...
This OECD report examines the issues and policy solutions used around the world to develop women’s entrepreneurship financing. It is aligned with the principles ofthe OECD... -
Diversity Matters Even More
For almost a decade, McKinsey has tracked data on the link between leadership diversity and financial performance. This report, based on the largest dataset yet (covering 1,265... -
Empowering change: The rise and role of gender-focused bonds
This study, published jointly by the experts at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE)'s leading platform for sustainable finance, the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) and the 2X... -
An overview of the gender-focused bond market
In this study, the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) provides a detailed analysis of bonds with a gender component hereafter named "gender-focused bonds" listed worldwide. LGX...