From Oliver Wyman Forum - More than a fifth of major corporations have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Yet few actively include or consider women in their climate action decisions and plans. This is a mistake. Research shows that women are the most likely change‑makers for climate in economic areas from corporate leadership to product development. But these potential contributions are generally overlooked, we discovered in interviews with more than 20 companies across a range of industries. These challenges should be linked together, especially given the similarities in their requirements for tangible impact: committed leadership, a rigorous focus on data, and continuous learning across the organization. Our conversations and research uncovered opportunities for corporations to speed up the world’s race to net zero by mainstreaming gender considerations in climate focused business initiatives — in particular, by actively considering women in three roles: Climate action leaders; Climate-lens investors; Low-carbon product influencers.

From Financial Alliance for Women - A wide collection of how-to guides and case studies ranging from data analysis, market research, public policy, women’s market strategy, and more.

From Stardust Equity. Stardust Equity believes that the best performing investment firms will be those that are approaching gender equality as they would any other business priority. In an effort to fully use the levers investors have at their disposal, Stardust Equity compiled the Gender Smart Due Diligence Questionnaire: a diligence tool assessing firms’ commitments to gender analysis and toward gender equality.

It’s an open secret: philanthropy today is top-heavy and insular. A glance at the world’s largest foundations and impact investment funds reveals that decision-makers tend to be disproportionately white, male, and from backgrounds of privilege. And decisions tend to be made in a closed, opaque way.

In Letting Go, Ben Wrobel and Meg Massey tell the story of the funders who have chosen to cede decision-making power to people with lived experience of the problem at hand. The stories range from a global foundation run by and for young feminist activists, to a neighborhood loan fund in Boston controlled by working-class residents of color.

As this book reveals, it’s not only possible to shift power in philanthropy and impact investing – it’s imperative in a world where inequality is reaching a breaking point.

From the European Commission. This discussion paper argues that empowering women as founders and investors is crucial to the achievement of the InvestEU goals. InvestEU is the new investment programme to be launched in 2021 under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework and financed by the Next Generation EU, aimed at mobilising private and public investment in Europe for more sustainable, inclusive and innovative growth.

Women tend to be associated with long-term, patient capital and more social-impact investment. Women’s wealth is on the rise and represents a huge economic opportunity to accelerate change towards a more diverse and sustainable financial system.

From The ImPact. This piece from The ImPact (co-authored by Suzanne Biegel) offers succinct, actionable insights for families interested in investing with a gender lens. Over a dozen interviews with gender lens investors provided wisdom for this publication about how and why families use gender as a factor of analysis in their investment decisions. Readers can use their experiences and stories to understand and seize the diverse opportunities for considering gender in investment decision-making. This report offers information for families at all starting points, ranging from families who want to use a gender lens to spot potential opportunities for market outperformance, families who want to use gender as the central focus of their investment thesis, and those who want to blend it into an existing impact strategy.

From Trillium Invest. In Investing for Positive Impact on Women: Integrating Gender into Total Portfolio Activation, Trillium Invest provide a framework and guide for mission-driven investors as they consider how to put their investments to work in support of their own long-term goals to benefit women and girls. It presents concrete examples of just some of these opportunities, as well as a variety of case studies of investors, funds, and initiatives that integrate gender considerations into their investment activities.

From UBS. This report offers actionable ways for private citizens to deploy their wealth and power towards improving gender equality.