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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Best Practices for the Financing of Women MSMEs in Latin America and the...
This IDB report, authored by Cristina López Mayher, Karina Azar, and S. Gabriela Andrade, shares good practices that can be replicated by national development banks to enhance... -
The Mobile Gender Gap Report
While the gender gap in mobile internet adoption had been closing steadily, in 2024, the gender gap in mobile internet adoption remained relatively unchanged from the previous... -
Gender Strategies in Investing: How European investment firms move from...
This report by the Esade Center for Social Impact investigates how European investment firms transition from awareness to action regarding gender strategies in investing,... -
Catalyzing Change in Equity Investing: Disruptive Models for Financing...
Investing in women entrepreneurs is an opportunity for entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders to benefit from innovation and economic development. This report, by the... -
Impact-linked finance: lessons so far and current market practice
Despite the growing use of Impact-Linked Finance (ILF) by impact investors, there is still a significant knowledge gap on its application in the development finance and impact... -
How do companies and funds with female owners and leaders support positive...
To better understand how British International Investment (BII's) past investments have supported positive outcomes for women, they commissioned Kore Global, a women-led... -
Closing the Gap: Lessons from Six Years of Investing in Women
This report presents British International Investment (BII's) journey as a gender-lens investor. It features examples of businesses they have partnered with across their... -
Pathways to Growth: Gender-smart business actions that work
Despite the robust evidence base, there are still too few concrete and relatable examples showing how change happens and the types of gender actions that can be effective for... -
Gender-smart climate finance: the policy angle
This report by 2x Global explores the connection between gender and climate finance, focusing on the importance of gender-smart investments in the broader climate finance and...