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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... -
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... -
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... -
"Show Me the Impact!" Findings and insights from DFI gender portfolio evaluations
This brief by Kore Global synthesises recent evaluation findings to provide the first cross-development finance institution (DFI) evidence on whether and how gender lens... -
Gender Lens Investing Landscape - Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in...
This is Kiva's 2021 survey of the emerging markets GLI landscape, through analysis of sector-wide microfinance data, and interviews of key industry stakeholders to identify gaps... -
Bonds to bridge the gender gap: A practitioner’s guide to using sustainable...
This guide by ICMA, IFC, and UN Women provides practical guidance on how to use sustainable bonds to credibly access financing for projects and strategies that advance gender... -
Financing Programs for Women’s Financial Inclusion and Access to Finance for...
This report presents the highlights from a survey directed to public development banks (PDBs) as part of the 2023 agenda of the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) Coalition on...