Diana van Maasdijk is the CEO of Equileap, a data provider that assesses 4,000 companies globally on 19 criteria including gender balance, the gender pay gap, paid parental leave and anti-sexual harassment policies. We speak with her about the findings of the just-published 2022 Gender Equality Global Report and Ranking, what’s improved and what still needs to happen to push companies and investors further towards gender parity.

In spite of increasing interest, there are still relatively few pension funds applying an intentional gender lens to their investments beyond board diversity. We assess the opportunities and challenges for pensions in key global markets, and speak to a few early movers tapping into a broader spectrum of opportunity.

We speak to Ruth Shaber MD, founder and president of Tara Health Foundation, and co-founder of Rhia Ventures about the ongoing importance of access to reproductive health in the United States, and the ways in which private investment has responded to protect this access in the wake of the pandemic.