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

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 Womenomics and the Measures That Matter -- Non-traditional Measures of Womenomics -- Social Progress and the Fairer Sex -- Chapter 2 It's the Women, Stupid -- How the U.S. Economy Stands on Women's Shoulders -- Women as Drivers of Growth -- Women consumers -- Women entrepreneurs -- Women investors -- Minding the Gaps That Matter -- Japan's Gamble on Womenomics -- Trends in Europe Echo America's -- Chapter 3 Womenomics Goes Global -- Getting the Basics Right -- The Womenomic Difference Between India and China -- Women Crossing the Digital Divide -- Chapter 4 From Womenomics to Gender Lens Investing -- Investor Attitudes, Ideas, and Returns Are a Changin' -- Responsible Investing-Then and Now -- Impact Investing Is Another Revolution -- Building Bridges Between Philanthropists and Impact Investors -- Different Starting Points for Gender Analysis -- Chapter 5 New Paths to Capital -- The Women Entrepreneurs' Gender Dividend -- Job Creation -- Reinvestment -- Innovation -- Outperformance for Investors -- The Battle of the Biases -- Microfinance Through a Gender Lens -- Client Focus -- Institutional View -- Measures of Outcomes -- The Missing Middle: Larger than Micro -- The New Girl Networks -- Chapter 6 Inside and Outside the Workplace -- Think about Gender in a Value Chain -- Tracking Four Gender in Business Themes -- Collective Intelligence -- Attracting and Retaining Talent -- Built-in Bias in Business Systems -- Relating to Customers and Business Partners -- Analyze Inside, Outside, and Look Forward -- The Board of Directors -- Senior Management -- People at Every Level -- Supplier Relationships -- Chapter 7 Getting Beyond Pink -- A Gendered Quest for Better Innovation -- Perils of Thinking Pink or Blue.

Raising Gender IQ in Marketing and Branding -- Products for the Base of the Pyramid -- Investor Questions Uncovering Innovation -- Chapter 8 A New Field in Motion -- The Public Equity and Debt Markets -- Private Markets for Investors Across the Wealth Spectrum -- Cash, Equivalents, and Guarantees -- Guarantees -- Crowdfunding -- Gender Lens Investors Are Not a Secret Society -- Creating Your Own Lens -- What Is the Purpose of Your Capital? -- Why Will You Use a Gender Lens? -- What Is Your Hypothesis? -- What Is Your Approach? -- How Do You Want to Engage? -- Can You Extend Impact with Philanthropy? -- Chapter 9 A Start That's Here to Stay -- The Tailwinds and the Trends -- The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- FinTech -- (Big) Data and Gender -- Gender and Workplace Research -- Men and Women Standing for Equality -- Women with Money -- Gender Investing Hurdles -- Gender and the Path to Better Investing -- Be Adopted by Mainstream Investors -- Become Increasingly Sophisticated -- Stay Diverse and Flexible -- Index -- EULA.

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