Women in Leadership

In recent years, investment professionals have identified a more nuanced category of diversification—specifically, gender diversification within workplace leadership. Data shows that leadership diversity tends to provide the same benefits as asset-class diversification: higher returns and lessened risk. Given this research, investors, particularly those committed to ESG investing are allocating funds to companies with strong female leadership. Examining the business case for weighing leadership diversity as a factor in investment analysis, there is a growing field called “gender-lens investing” as investors expect to continue to benefit from women in leadership.