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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... -
Project Sage 4.0
This is a global scan from 2021 of gender lens private equity, venture capital, and private debt funds, and key findings on the current state of the field. As with the three... -
Gender Lens Investing: A Scoping Review from Theoretical Foundations to...
This scoping written by Freyja Vilborg Thorarinsdottir, and published in the journal, Sustainability, explores the dynamic field of Gender Lens Investing (GLI), examining its... -
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... -
Taking small steps together: incorporating a gender lens approach for small...
This case study, authored by Aidis, Eissler, Etchart, and Truzzi de Souza explores how small impact investing firms can begin integrating a gender lens within existing... -
Editorial: growing gender lens investing in emerging markets
This editorial by Robino and Jackson examines the current state and future directions of gender lens investing (GLI) in emerging markets, highlighting persistent challenges... -
Evolving the gender analysis in gender lens investing: moving from counting...
This paper in the Journal of Sustainable Finance examines the quality of the gender lens investing field’s underlying gender analysis to assess how a field built to redress... -
Reverse Gender Gap in SME Finance?
This note explores a surprising trend in SME lending in Bangladesh: a reverse gender gap in access to finance. Using administrative data from BRAC Bank, the research finds that... -
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... -
Developing an index for measuring gender lens investing in organizations:...
This article, by Palomo-Vadillo, Ortega-Larrea, Bordonado-Bermejo, and De-Pablos-Heredero, introduces and validates the GLIMETRICS framework, a measurement tool designed to... -
Pacific RISE as a Case Study of Gender Lens Investing: Influences on the Field
This case study examines how the Pacific RISE program applied a gender lens approach to impact investing in the Pacific amid limited awareness of GLI, narrow definitions of... -
Project Catalyst Tracking gender lens investing activity in private markets
This report serves as a snapshot of the activity of gender lens funds in private markets. It is aimed primarily at fund managers, Limited Partners, ecosystem builders, and... -
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...