Research published by HBR in 2015, showed that CEOs who score highly for traits like compassion and integrity can earn a 9.35% return on assets over two years.

— Forbes, Why Everyone Wins With More Women In Leadership, 2023

“For every dollar of venture capital funding received, women-led startups generated 78 cents; for businesses launched by men, the return was 31 cents.”

— Boston Consulting Group: Why Women-Owned Startups Are a Better Bet, 2018

Research on 43,000 pages of corporate SEC filings found that: tapping women for leadership roles changes how an organization perceives women. Companies that elevated women to the corner office were more likely to associate women with leadership traits, and that change in organizational language trickles down to more junior levels.

—Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022

“The latest FAO report quantifies the enormous opportunity right in front of us: if we can close the gender gap in farm productivity, we could achieve a trillion dollar increase in global GDP, and a reduction of food insecurity for 45 million people globally.”

—USAID Deputy Administrator, Isobel Coleman, Speaking at the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate Summit, May 2023

Patients who were treated by female physicians in hospital settings…were 4% less likely to die, and were 5% less likely to need to return to the hospital within 30 days.

—JAMA Health Forum

The driving force behind Black Twitter is Black women.

— Nielsen

A Study that tracked reproduction rates—following the free distribution of birth control to teens—resulted in ~72% fewer abortions.

— Science News