Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact

Praise for Gender Lens Investing

"One of the biggest possibilities that we have globally is to give equal rights, to invest equally in men and women. Investors using a gender lens as VanderBrug and Quinlan lay out will ask different questions and gain material insights."
Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever

"Gender Lens Investing is a valuable and timely book. It clarifies today what will be obvious tomorrow: seeking investment returns while ignoring half the population is like looking at the world with only one eye."
Anne–Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America

"Gender equality is one of the most important economic trends in the 21st century. Jackie VanderBrug and Joe Quinlan argue persuasively that investing in the rise of women is not just an economic necessity but a too often ignored massive money–making opportunity."
Matthew Bishop, Senior Editor, Economist Group; coauthor, Philanthrocapitalism

"Gender Lens Investing is essential reading for all investors and philanthropists those who look to drive returns and those who seek to drive positive social change. The best part you don′t need to choose."
Jacki Zehner, Chief Engagement Officer, Women Moving Millions

"This broad, encompassing, and well–researched book cogently positions gender lens investing as a fusion of ESG integration and impact investing, the two hot trends in investing today. Thanks to Quinlan and VanderBrug, gender lens investing will become a third and will spawn other lens–based approaches. It also has profound implications for company board directors and fund trustees."
Bob Eccles, Founder, SASB; Chairman, Arabesque

"Generating equal opportunities for all results in benefits not only for individuals, but also for families, companies, and societies. Quinlan and VanderBrug provide investors with essential information on how to close not only unjust but costly gender gaps. Vital reading if you want to make a lasting difference."
Henriette Kolb, Head, International Finance Corporation Gender Secretariat, World Bank

"Global investors today are looking for more new avenues to growth, more ways to reduce risk, and more alignment with their individual purposes and visions. Impact investing has emerged to meet these aspirations and is moving into the mainstream. Quinlan and VanderBrug provide cogent analysis and evidence that a gender lens is a powerful tool to successfully navigate today′s multi–dimensional markets."
Michele Giddens, Co–Founder and Partner, Bridges Ventures

Prologue

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Chapter 1: Womenomics and the Measures That Matter

Chapter 2: It s the Women Stupid

Chapter 3: Chairman Mao Was Right

Chapter 4: From Womenomics to Gender Lens Investing

Chapter 5: New Paths to Capital

Chapter 6: Inside and Outside the Workplace

Chapter 7: Getting Beyond Pink

Chapter 8: A New Field in Motion

Chapter 9: A Start That s Here to Stay

Index

Joseph Quinlan is managing director and head of Market and Thematic Strategy for the Global Wealth and Investment Management (GWIM) division of Bank of America. He is the author of The Last Economic Superpower.

Jackie VanderBrug is managing director and Sustainable Platform Lead for the Global Wealth and Investment Management (GWIM) division of Bank of America, where she co–chairs the Impact Investing Council.