“When women have the tools to succeed, they reinvest in their families and communities, creating a multiplier effect that promotes wellbeing, prosperity and stability.”
—USAID Deputy Administrator, Isobel Coleman — at the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate Summit, May 2023
Read MoreWhen we include women in the conversation, we enrich our understanding of resources.
—Nature Conservancy: Who Is Conservation? Removing barriers for women working in the environmental field will only make conservation as a whole more effective, 2023
Read MoreResearch published by the Hay Group in 2016, revealed that women surpass males in 11 of 12 major emotional intelligence characteristics; and 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
Read MoreNielsen predicts that by 2028, women will own 75% of the discretionary (US) spending.
—Nielsen, Wise up to Women, 2020
Read MoreIn 2009, HBR wrote that women accounted for about $20 trillion in annual consumer expenditure, making them a more substantial potential market expansion than both China and India put together. A decade later, women's spending power is reportedly around $31 trillion.
— Forbes, Why Everyone Wins With More Women In Leadership, 2023
Read MoreThe proportion of women in senior management roles globally grew to 32% in 2022—the highest number ever recorded.
— Grant Thorton, Women in business
Read More“Women CEOs run 10.4% of Fortune 500 companies. A quarter of the 52 leaders became CEO in the last year.”
— The 69th Annual Fortune 500 Ranking, 2023
Read More“Women purpose driven leaders are calculated-risk takers and consider people just as important, if not more important than profit when making business decisions.”
— InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top, Barbara Kurshan
Read More“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
Read More“When women are in charge, companies achieve diversity targets sooner, provide higher sales growth, and improve earnings-per-share.”
— Credit Suisse, The CS Gender 3000: The Reward for Change, 2016
Read More“When looking at empathy in purpose-driven leaders, we discovered that women scored an average of 13% higher than men in this skill.”
— InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top, Barbara Kurshan
Read More“Women’s leadership style tends to benefit a broader range of stakeholders within and outside companies (customers, suppliers, and community).
— S+P Global. Women CEOs: Leadership for a Diverse Future, 2022
Read More“Women CEOs, since the outbreak of the pandemic, steadily increased their use of words corresponding to leadership styles built around diversity, empathy, adaptability, and transformation, according to our language analysis of 6,831 corporate leaders of S&P Global Broad Market Index..”
— S+P Global. Women CEOs: Leadership for a Diverse Future, 2022
Read More“Currently, women are trained to reach leadership positions the way men reach leadership positions—through competition for power. However, as more employees and organizations are shifting toward more purpose-driven, people-centered business models (thanks to COVID), I believe the construct of leadership will change. Instead of fighting for power, leaders will advocate for purpose – which is where women excel. Instead of the future leaders being trained to emulate men, they will be trained to emulate women.”
— Ashley Levesque, VP of Marketing, Banzai
Read MoreWomen leaders are particularly skilled in crisis management and communication, [are] collaborative in their decision making, and careful to implement inclusive policies that addressed the pandemic’s social impacts…One of the reigning factors of women’s leadership is the emphasis on collective responsibility and solidarity.
—UN Working Paper, COVID-19 and women’s leadership: From an effective response to building back better, 2020
Read MoreAt a time when organizations face dire talent shortages, retaining and promoting women leaders is perhaps the best and most urgent solution for securing one’s entire workforce.
—HBR, When Women Leaders Leave, the Losses Multiply, 2022
Read MoreWomen leaders have more engaged teams, drive better job performance, and save their organization millions of dollars as a result.
—HBR, When Women Leaders Leave, the Losses Multiply, 2022
Read MoreWith male leaders in our population, 18% of their followers are actively disengaged compared to 11% of the followers of female leaders. Based on Gallup research, a disengaged employee costs their organization $3400 for every $10,000 of salary in lost productivity.
—HBR, 2020
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