From Acumen and ICRW. This framework and diverse set of case studies encourages entrepreneurs, impact investors and philanthropists to further examine specific ways in which they can integrate women into business model innovations and as key decision makers.

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.

From Calvert Impact Capital. This framework is designed to help users understand where and how they can advocate productively for gender equity—whether they are a financial advisor or fund manager, a client or an individual investor. It offers a basic approach to gender lens investing that can be tailored to a user’s unique circumstances and goals.

From the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at UPENN. This paper presents a detailed summary of the data available to investors around enhancing the lives of women, as well as a discussion about how to use data to select stocks and engage as a shareholder to influence the companies you own. One of the most important revelations to emerge from our research and analysis is that mission alignment is possible for grants and public equity investments—and infusing our framework into grantmaking guidelines and investment policy statements can lead to better outcomes.

By Jackie VanderBrug, Managing Director and Joseph Quinlan. Women today are an unparalleled force in the global economy as successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives and family breadwinners. Yet gender-based violence, the absence of women's legal rights and the persistent wage gap stubbornly remain. This paradox creates an unprecedented and underexplored opportunity for investors.

Gender Lens Investing, co-authored by Jackie VanderBrug, Managing Director and Joseph Quinlan, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, is the first book of its kind to examine, in-depth the advantages of integrating gender into investment analysis.

From IDB Invest and ESADE. Globally gender lens investing has grown exponentially as a way to increase financial returns and gender equality. What is this trend about? What can Latin America and the Caribbean learn from it?

At current rates of progress, it will take 74 years to achieve gender parity in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap report. This paper includes:

• the experience of the US, Europe and other countries in channelling over $2.2B in gender lens investing

• gaps and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean to attract international investors

• success stories from Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Brazil

From Acumen and Unilever. This document captures eight months of work measuring gender impacts across five projects in four countries. The subsequent sections of this report detail the approach, surveys and methodology for the Lean Data Gender Toolkit and provide both project-level analysis and consolidated insights across all five projects.

The Lean Data Gender Toolkit provides a simple, easy-to-use, and actionable approach to help businesses, program designers, and investors put the voices of those they aim to serve at front and center. The utility of this toolkit is not about getting more women as customers, but rather unlocking the potential of women as decision-makers, employees, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

From Veris Wealth Partners. Veris presents its fifth survey of GLI products that are both publicly available (stocks, bonds, and certificates of deposit), and explicitly support gender balance and equity.

From As You Sow. Individual and institutional investors can align their actions with their values, and take responsibility for the investments they own. Aligning investments with values requires that you know what you own—but if you’re invested through mutual funds, it has been nearly impossible to know what individual companies you own. That’s changed with As You Sow’s Gender Equality Funds. Now, you can harness your personal economic power to confront big business. Discover which funds are investing in the companies that lead the field in terms of gender balance and policies promoting gender equality. Use Gender Equality Funds to search and compare mutual funds based on their gender-lens score and financial performance. You can use this database to find socially responsible options that meet your specific needs.

From Nexial. The Gender Finance Ecosystem Map presents an overview of the multi-faceted field of gender finance, involving diverse sets of stakeholders across finance, business, government, and civil society.

It is hoped that the map will facilitate more productive conversations, and catalyse the concerted actions required to shift the system and allow gender finance to break-through at scale.

From FinDev Canada. A tool to raise awareness about women’s economic participation. FinDev Canada translated some of the barriers women face into a print-and-play marketplace game that you can download and play with friends, family, colleagues and classmates.

From the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). The WBA aims to measure corporate gender impacts and accelerate progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment with its Gender Benchmark. This benchmark is part of WBA’s wider work to measure and rank the world’s 2,000 most influential companies’ contributions to achieving the SDGs by 2030. This includes assessing all 2,000 companies on social inclusion, of which gender is a core part.

From the Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Catalyst at Large. An update of the original 2017 Project Sage report by WSII and Suzanne Biegel. A landscape analysis of structured private equity, venture capital, and private debt vehicles with a gender lens.

From Cambridge Associates. In this brief paper, Cambridge Associates present: a review of gender equality and its impact on economic growth; a case for gender lens investing as an alpha engine; an overview of gender lens investing; and an outline of opportunities for investment. With a gender lens framework, investors can positively impact gender imbalances via their portfolio management choices; this paper provides tangible investment themes and implementable strategies.

From SPRING Accelerator. Are you an investor interested in exploring the potential of investing to benefit girls and young women in emerging markets? Perhaps you are wondering how to start, or are looking to deepen the impact towards girls and young women within your existing investments? Then this toolkit is for you.