Gender Lens Investing Uplifts Women and Boosts Returns
Today is Women’s Equality Day, a celebration of the progress made since American women won the right to vote more than a century ago. But in the fight for economic parity, there’s little to cheer for.
Despite efforts to remedy the income gap between the sexes, women still earn just 82 cents for every dollar earned by men, Pew Research shows. This disparity persists across education levels: Men without high school diplomas make an average of $151 more per week than women without one, while men with advanced degrees earn $452 more per week than women with the same level of education, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics (DOL).
It’s not all doom…
