Gender Lens Investing is the deliberate incorporation of gender factors into investment analysis and decision-making. It can include choosing to emphasize companies with more gender-diverse boards and management teams, or to fund top-notch female-owned businesses; it can be emphasizing companies whose products and services improve the lives of women and girls.
Investing with a gender lens isn’t just a nice thing to do. It’s 21st century smart investing. Applying a gender lens helps identify the companies who grasp opportunity, and uncover the potential risks of those that don’t. My post The Smart Investment provides an overview.
Below are my top five Gender Lens Investing resources:
- Gender Lens Investing: Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact (Stanford Social Innovation Review article about book by Joseph Quinlan & Jackie Vanderbrug)
- Gender Lens Impact Investing (Wharton Social Impact)
- Top Reports on Women & Girls (The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation)
- Gender Lens Investing Resources (Criterion Institute)
- Gender Lens Investing Resources Graphic (excellent summary of investment options & resources)
