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Why ignoring women is costing financial services money
Why better servicing women is a $700 billion untapped opportunity in the financial industry.
Source: Oliver Wyman
Date: 15.11.2019
​Authors: 
  1. David Gillespie and Jessica Clempner
This underfunded female demographic is launching the most start-ups in America, far from Silicon Valley
Black women are starting businesses at the fastest clip of any racial group, according to research by American Express. Since 2007, the number of firms owned by African-American women has grown by 164%. Despite the hustle, minority women are being shut out when it comes to access to capital.
Source: CNBC.com
Date: 25.02.2020
​Author: 
  1. ELLEN SHEN
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43 WORLD-CHANGING WOMEN IN CONSCIOUS BUSINESS — 2020
Presented by Kate Spade New York, this celebration of incredible needle-moving, envelope-pushing mission-driven leaders is fiercely inspiring.
Source: Conscious Company
Date: 06.01.2020
​Author: 
  1. VANESSA CHILDERS
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Everything you need to know about the gender gap in 2020
The Global Gender Gap Report 2020 reveals that gender parity will not be attained for 99.5 years.
Source: World Economic Forum
Date: 17.12.2019
​Authors: 
  1. Kirsten Salyer Public Engagement Specialist, World Economic Forum
  2. Oliver Cann Head of Strategic Communications; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva
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Getting African Women into the Boardroom
​Companies often claim that there are simply not enough female candidates, however this is not the case.
Source: World Economic Forum
Date: 05.07.2019
​Authors: 
  1. Marcia Ashong Founder and Executive Director, TheBoardroom Africa
  2. Akinyi Ochieng Esther Ocloo Fellow, Botho Emerging Markets Group
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The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity in Supporting Female Entrepreneurs
Currently, women-led businesses are less likely to survive, despite evidence that their startups are often highly successful.
Source: Harvard Business Review
Date: 31.10.2019
​Authors: 
  1. ​Shalini Unnikrishnan
  2. Roy Hanna
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The Business Imperative of Diversity
Increasing diversity is a moral imperative, but it is also becoming a powerful business requirement.
Source: BCG Henderson Institute
Date: 20.06.2019
​Authors: 
  1. Miki Tsusaka, Christian Greiser, Matt Krentz, and Martin Reeves
International Women’s Day 2019. Gender balance in Mauritius, 51 years later
The global rank of Mauritius is 109 out of 149 countries, with a global gender gap score of 0.663 only, according to the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2018. When it comes to economic participation and opportunity and political empowerment, Mauritius is ranked at 119 and 116 respectively.
Source: Weekly Magazine
Date: 07.03.2019
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Delivering Through Diversity
The Delivering through Diversity report both tackles the business case and provides a perspective on how to take action on I&D to impact growth and business performance.
Source: McKinsey&Company
Date: January 2018
​Authors: 
  1. Vivian Hunt
  2. Sara Prince
  3. Sundiatu Dixon-Fyle
  4. Lareina Yee