How to Invest With a Gender Lens: A Guide for Investors in Emerging Markets | Investing in Women

March 5, 2021

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Globally, awareness of gender lens investing continues to gain momentum, but this awareness must translate to action and movement of capital, especially during this period of COVID-19 response and recovery. Thus, how fund managers invest is just as important as what they invest in. This perspective not only demands a technical approach (gender analysis, tools, and frameworks), but also broader organizational re-alignment (gender mainstreaming). This internal process is an essential part of creating external change and outcomes that advance gender equality.

This How-To Guide provides practical tools and resources for an investing community that urgently needs to address its diversity and inclusion deficits.

The Gender Lens Investing Framework prescribes three entry points for investors:

  • Providing capital to women-led and gender-forward businesses
  • Applying a gender lens across the investment process
  • Advancing gender diversity in the investment firm

Because there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach, investors can use these actions as a reference and adopt all or a hybrid depending on their starting points, motivations, and objectives. Further to that, investors can add more elements incrementally to steadily increase their gender inclusion practices and gender impacts.

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