Investments & Wealth Monitor: The Investment Case for Gender Equality

By Julie Gorte, PhD. The case for gender equality has never been stronger—the ethical case as well as the investment and economic cases. Progress, however, remains slow and somewhat patchy, for the same reasons that efforts to tackle other forms of inequality are measured by the turtle’s pace rather than the gazelle’s: The power elite almost never give up ground without a fight. But that’s turning into a losing, if protracted, battle.