Diverse companies are 70% more likely to capture new markets.

—HBR, How Diversity Can Drive Innovation , 2013

When companies foster a more inclusive work environment, 83% of Millennials are found to be actively engaged in their work + Millennials will comprise 75% of America’s workforce by 2025.

—Deloitte, The Radical Transformation of Diversity and Inclusion The Millennial Influence, 2015

Diverse companies enjoy 2.3 times higher cash flow per employee.

—Bersin by Deloitte, High-Impact Talent Management, 2015

Loss of female workers under the Taliban has already cost the economy $1bn.

—The Guardian, 2022

A product development study found that teams with both men and women produced more patents for inventions and new products, demonstrating improved creativity and innovative thinking.

—Who Invents IT? An Analysis of Women’s Participation in Information Technology Patenting, National Center for Women and Information Technology, 2012

When leadership teams are diverse, workers are more likely to be engaged and involved, people tend to behave more ethically, the culture is more open to diversity in hiring and promotions, employees are more satisfied with their jobs and have lower intentions to leave, and workers have higher perceptions of fairness.

—Diversity Matters, Catalyst, 2014

When women work and lead alongside men in teams and organizations—and other types of diversity also apply—creativity is enhanced, and teams and organizations can better generate novel ideas, understand various perspectives, make discoveries, and create breakthrough innovations.

—How Diversity Makes Us Smarter, Greater Good Magazine, 2017

More gender and racially-diverse teams shared more facts, made fewer factual errors, were more willing to reexamine facts and remain objective, became more aware of personal blind spots, processed facts more carefully, and embodied more innovative thinking than non-diverse groups.

—HBR, 2016

When women leaders leave, the losses multiply, in terms of both job satisfaction and performance.

—Potential Projects, Spring 2022 Report

Some of the most innovative publicly listed companies in the world — Amazon.com Inc., Nike Inc. and Visa Inc., among others — have something in common that you might not expect: more women on their boards than their industry peers. They also tended to have stronger diversity and inclusion programs.

—MSCI, 2019

Women have better non-performing loan (NPL) ratios: 3% compared to 4.9% for total SME portfolios according to an IFC assessment of 157 financial institutions.

—World Economic Forum, 2022

Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25% more likely to have above-average profitability than companies in the bottom

—McKinsey + Company Diversity Wins 2020

Enabling women to gain better access to finance could unlock $330 billion in annual global revenue.

—ILO, The Power of Small: Unlocking The Potential of SMES (micro, small and medium-sized enterprises), 2019

There are over 11.6 million firms in the United States that are owned by women, generating roughly $1.7 trillion in yearly sales.

—National Association of Women Business Owners, 2019

It is estimated that the Indian economy could grow by an additional 60 percent by 2025, adding $2.9 trillion, if women were represented in the formal economy at the same rate as men.

—Council on Foreign Relations Report, Spotlight on India

Over 64 million MSME (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) players in Indonesia contributed 60% to the country's economy. Of the figure, most of those MSME players are women.

— Minister Teten Masduki, The Minister for Cooperatives and SMES Indonesia

In its latest Report, the data showed, credit ratings not only correlated with greater board-level gender diversity, but also with a higher percentage of women in executive-level roles.

— Moody’s

A study which examined nearly 66,000 personality and motivation tests reveals: women are more instinctive when it comes to making decisions. They have a better grasp of situations and do not hesitate to use their intuition. Coupled with their past experiences, this inclination can facilitate the fluidity of managerial decisions.

— EDHEC NewGen Talent Centre

A study, which examined nearly 66,000 personality and motivation tests reveals: women 13% more likely to be objective in their work than men.

— EDHEC NewGen Talent Centre

A study, which examined nearly 66,000 personality and motivation tests, reveals: women are committed to transparency (+12%) and authenticity, and are 13% more likely to be objective in their work than men.

— EDHEC NewGen Talent