Gender strategies in investing: How do European investment firms move from awareness to action?

This research sought to understand why investment firms adopt gender strategies, what barriers may exist when starting the gender journey, and how GLI can be further mainstreamed in private markets. The investment firms studied have different stories relating to their “gender journey,” illustrating that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to engaging and building gender awareness and action in private market investment firms. Instead, there are a variety of enabling push and pull factors and possible responses to different pockets of resistance on the journey.