{"id":40218,"date":"2024-03-02T15:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T20:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/?p=40218"},"modified":"2024-03-05T23:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:48:25","slug":"making-gender-visible-a-path-to-systemic-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/making-gender-visible-a-path-to-systemic-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Gender Visible: A Path to Systemic Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"
>> Back to March 2024 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n
Above: a human-generated image of a visible and invisible light spectrum <\/em><\/h5>\n

\u201cExclusion and harm on the basis of gender are so pervasive as to be invisible, normalized, and ignored.\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/h3>\n
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\"Geeta<\/a>This was the opening sentence in my 2021 piece, \u201cMaking Gender Visible.\u201d Three years later, gender-based inequity, violence, and harassment remain intransigently woven into commerce, economics, and social systems. As attempts to undo the progress of recent decades are mounting at the political level, many companies are changing course by either slowing or abandoning efforts designed to aid the transition to a more inclusive economy. The result is a persistent, enormous gender gap, with gender parity still 131 years away.[1]<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

Until now, gender has not received adequate priority and has been largely confined to a single data point under workplace diversity efforts. While workplace-focused efforts that call for advancements like enhanced disclosure and board diversity are vital to supporting the infrastructure necessary to evolve toward gender equality in corporate environments, lasting change will require more comprehensive gender prioritization across corporate value chains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Public equity investors have a unique opportunity to motivate companies to design for inclusion and create genuinely inclusive systems within their organizations and throughout their value chains. Determined to equip investors with the tools to activate their voice, my company, Boston Common Asset Management, developed <\/span>Investor Guidance for Prioritizing Gender<\/span><\/a> in 2022. The guidance supplies engaged investors with critical questions and essential tactics for motivating companies to adopt gender-specific approaches using an integrated, full value chain approach.<\/span><\/p>\n

Underpinning this approach is the understanding that a corporate strategy that prioritizes inclusive gender governance can positively impact each aspect of a company\u2019s value chain, as detailed below:<\/strong><\/p>\n