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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... -
4 ways investors can help women entrepreneurs thrive by adopting a gender...
In this short article, World Economic Forum outlines four ways investors can empower women entrepreneurs by adopting a gender lens approach to investing, drawing on lessons... -
GSEARCH Case Study: Digicon - Mentoring and Leadership
This case study presents SEAF's Gender-smart technical assistance (TA) to Digicon Technologies Limited, an outsourcing company in Bangladesh that offers business processing... -
Mango Fund Case Study: How a Ugandan Investment Fund Is Doubling the Number...
This case study by Value for Women describes Mango Fund’s journey to improve gender equality through its business operations– often referred to as “applying a gender lens”. It... -
How to Invest with a Gender Lens? A guide for investors in emerging markets
This 'How-to' Guide makes an important contribution by providing practical tools and resources for an investing community that urgently needs to address its diversity and... -
Gender Finance Booklet: Financial Centres for Sustainability Network 2023
The Gender Finance Booklet, developed by UNDP’s Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) Network and UN Women, and written by lead authors, Delfina Monteverdi and Manita Ray,... -
Australia: Social bond issued by a commercial bank
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment, this case study examines the National Australia... -
Sweden: Sustainability-linked bond issued by a global investment firm
Part of series developed by UN Women and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange with the support of Luxembourg Aid & Devlopment,this case study highlights 500 M Euro sustainability-... -
Sweef Capital Gender ROI™
The tool, developed by Sweef Capital, provides a common language around gender, and clear systems and processes with which to translate aspirations into superior financial... -
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Signal
A tool that monitors asset managers’ firm-level progress—and potential—in achieving more diverse and balanced representation among their key decision-makers. Using our... -
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... -
Gender Lens Investing 2025
This report presents Parallel Finance’s 17th quarterly review of gender lens and sustainable investing, marking their fifth year-end summary of data and developments in (a)... -
Summary: Private Equity and Value Creation: A Fund Manager’s Guide to...
This is a summary of the report Private Equity and Value Creation: A Fund Managers Guide to Gender-Smart Investing, providing fund managers with a roadmap on how to strengthen... -
Private Equity and Value Creation: A Fund Manager’s Guide to Gender-smart Investing
Gender-smart investment strategies can help grow a company’s competitiveness, solidify its supply base, improve its human capital, and help build an overall enabling business... -
Kenhardt Solar Project: Lessons from women in the construction workforce
This case study highlights the Kenhardt Solar Project, one of the world’s largest hybrid solar and battery storage facilities in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It... -
The Boardroom Africa: Increasing women leaders in Africa
TheBoardroom Africa (TBrA) is the region’s leading organisation dedicated to promoting exceptional, diverse talent to board and executive positions and providing comprehensive... -
Ecom Express:Accelerating female inclusion in the logistics sector
This Case Study highlights British International Investment (BII's) work with Ecom Express (Ecom), a leading logistics solutions provider to the Indian retail and e-commerce... -
Arise: Empowering women in a male-dominated sector in Gabon
This Case study highlights British International Investment (BII's) work with ARISE, a company which manage infrastructure and logistics services across Africa, including... -
Sun King: Fostering women’s professional development in off-grid solar
This Case Study highlights British International Investment (BII's) investment in Sun King, s the global leader in the growing ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) off-grid solar energy...