Impact investor, philanthropist and adviser known for championing gender-lens investing donates $1m with husband to create Heading for Change, a new climate and gender-focused endowment fund.
Mainstream awareness of gender-lens investing is growing and investors are having “the right discussions” – but it’s still more theory than execution, latest GenderSmart report shows.
IIX and partners will develop standards for a new type of debt security, which the organisation says could unlock $10bn in gender-lens investing and improve the lives of 100m women by 2030.
Our financial accounting systems were designed by white men, for white men – with disastrous implications for people and planet. Could a gender lens help us reshape an accounting system built on empathy and that works for the majority?
