{"id":24623,"date":"2019-04-01T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/?p=24623"},"modified":"2020-07-31T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:46:13","slug":"women-and-sustainable-investing-driving-assets-and-benefitting-from-a-gender-lens-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/women-and-sustainable-investing-driving-assets-and-benefitting-from-a-gender-lens-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and Sustainable Investing: Driving Assets and Benefitting from a Gender-Lens Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"
>> Back to April 2019<\/a><\/div>\n

\"\"The mission of US SIF is to rapidly shift investment practices towards sustainability, focusing on long-term investment and generation of positive social and environmental impacts. This includes the actions of institutional asset managers and asset owners as well as high net worth individuals and retail investors.<\/p>\n

Women are Increasingly Driving Asset Growth<\/h3>\n

Women are and will continue to be critical to the ability to move forward investments in sustainability-focused products and strategies. According to a Morgan Stanley<\/a><\/strong> study, 84 percent of women expressed interest in sustainable investing, compared to 67 percent of men. Similarly, research from Moxie Future<\/a> <\/strong>found that 83 percent of women investors care where their money is invested, 69 percent feel a sense of urgency to invest responsibly, and 63 percent are motivated to be responsible investors.<\/p>\n

According to the most recent data from the US Department of Labor, 57 percent of women participate in the US labor market, compared to 34 percent in 1950. Thirty nine percent of all privately held firms are women-owned, including one in five with revenue of $1 million or more, the National Association of Women Business Owners<\/a> <\/strong>indicates. A US Census Bureau<\/a><\/strong> study found that women are now the primary breadwinners in 23 percent of households, compared to 11 percent in 1960. US Trust<\/a> <\/strong>research identified that globally, the income of women has surpassed $15 trillion, making it a growth market larger than China\u2019s economy and second only to the US economy.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Advancement and Equality are Increasingly Considered in Investment Products <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Additionally, in the last decade, the practice of gender lens investing has become one of the hottest thematic areas of impact investing.<\/p>\n

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