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Investing with equal pay in mind may be more difficult than you think
Investors who are concerned about equal pay may want to consider certain gender and diversity funds that are making this issue a priority.
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- Investing
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From Counting Women to Valuing Women: Practical Impact Measurement Tools for Complex Contexts
The old way of measuring the gender equality of a company or program consisted of simply counting women – from the number of female employees and clients, to the number of women beneficiaries and board members. The new way is all about valuing women by collecting data on how they are impacted by a company or program. Rebecca Baylor at WDI's Performance Measurement team provides some concrete strategies for gender-based impact measurement and management.
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- Impact Assessment
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Women Helping Women: How a Network of Female Digital Finance Agents is Boosting Empowerment in India
Digital finance has made great strides in India, but many women remain excluded – especially in rural areas. Grameen Foundation India is tackling this issue with a unique, digitally driven social enterprise model that harnesses the untapped potential of rural women, training them as field agents to extend digital finance to other women (and men) in their communities. Tanvi Gupta explores how these agents are empowering hundreds of thousands of women with access to financial services – while also generating needed income for themselves and their families.
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- Finance, Social Enterprise
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Press release: OPIC’s 2x Women’s Initiative Surpasses $1 Billion Goal
Launched publically one year ago during Women’s History Month, OPIC’s 2X Women’s Initiative aims to unlock the multi-trillion dollar opportunity women represent by catalyzing investment in projects that support the world’s women. As part of the initiative, OPIC committed to mobilizing $1 billion to business and funds owned by women, managed by women, or providing a product or service that intentionally empowers women.
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Viewpoint: How to Evaluate Funds that Invest in Women
A growing amount of data show that ESG-focused investments can perform just as well or even better than traditional investments, letting people do good socially and financially.
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- Investing
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Growth in ‘gender-smart’ investing helps sisters do it for themselves
The value of private funds with a gender focus reached $2.2 billion in the year to July 2018, 73 percent higher than the same period in 2016/17, according to a report by Wharton business school and consultancy Catalyst at Large.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Why investing in women and girls will take off in 2019
Bart Édes of Asian Development Bank writes about the growing body of evidence suggesting that empowering women is critical to boosting global prosperity.
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- Asia Pacific
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Diverse Pathways to Women’s Economic Empowerment: Stories from Three Local Leaders on International Women’s Day
We often think of women’s economic empowerment as focused on achieving material goals like income, credit and jobs. But true empowerment is much more complex, says Mara Bolis, Senior Advisor on Market Systems at Oxfam America. She explores three key conditions that enable economic empowerment, using examples from three women she met in a recent Oxfam visit to Cambodia – a fitting topic for discussion this International Women's Day.
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