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Gender-Lens Investing Strategies for 2019

Stanford Social Innovation Review Mar 21, 2019
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Giving Compass’ Take:

• The author explores gender-lens investing strategies that make sense in 2019 as this practice gains more momentum in the impact investing world. 

• How will gender-lens investing impact the lives of women? 

• Read about how to build a gender-lens investment strategy. 


After a decades-long outcry for data proving that gender-smart investing makes financial sense, today reams of evidence show that including women in government leads to more stable societies, educating women creates stronger communities, including women on company boards leads to better organizational performance, and access to contraceptives contributes to a stable economy.

Once viewed as a niche strategy, gender-lens investments are emerging as an important source of funding for organizations, products, and services that benefit women.

But while gender-lens investing has enormous momentum, there is more work to do, especially in structuring organizational leadership to include all women. Here are four major themes that should be at the front of gender-lens investors’ minds in 2019.


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    Giving Compass' Take: • Mission Investor Exchange publishes remarks recently given by Amit Bouri, CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), about how we can unlock capital for social good. • Bouri also emphasizes the importance of a people-centered approach (rather than an over-reliance on technical tools). Are we engaging enough with the communities we're trying to help? • Here's more on how impact investing can create brighter futures. At this moment, impact investing hangs in the balance. We can’t be sure if it will tip to a new future or be sucked back into business as usual — coopted and absorbed by the status quo. Our only chance for success is to offer a better alternative for the way the world invests. This is why the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)’s vision is bigger than impact investing. This is why we believe in a future where impact is a part of every investment. Success will require getting to the root of the problems in our financial systems. And then using our influence, our evidence, and our energy to create systemic change. We will need to assume responsibility beyond our own deals and our own portfolios. Because all of our investments around the world can add up to something bigger: To a global economy that is more fair, more sustainable, and more inclusive. Because, ultimately, what does success mean for impact investing if the broader system is failing? So, how do we do this? How do we build a powerful alternative to the status quo? Three things: 1. We need to mobilize more capital 2. We need to safeguard the integrity of impact investing 3. We need to fuel a global impact investing movement Read the full article about trying to boost impact investing by Amit Bouri at Mission Investors Exchange.


  1. The Time Is Now According to the latest report by the gender-lens investment accelerator Catalyst at Large and investment advisor Veris Wealth Partners, assets under management with a gender-lens mandate grew 85 percent in the 12 months prior to July 2018, as global investors added more than $1 billion to a range of gender-smart strategies.
  2. Impact Investing Is Intersectional As gender-smart investing expands, we must make sure that the investing world’s growing focus on women does not leave behind women of color. For example, women and people of color receive only 0.2 percent of venture funding, according to a new report by #ProjectDiane. If we’re not conscious of this imbalance and the biases that have created it, we will continue to lock many people out of opportunities.
  3. Account for Gender in All Decision-Making To make the systemic changes we need to achieve gender equality, investors and other stakeholders must ensure that women are included in every stage of organizational decision-making.
  4.  Data Is Nothing Without Action Despite all the data showing its potential, gender-lens investing is usually a side session at investing and social impact conferences—and the attendees are mostly women.

Read the full article about gender-lens investing strategies by Emilie Cortes at Stanford Social Innovation Review

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