A recent McKinsey study of 65,000 employees, women managers were scored higher by their employees as taking people-centered actions that helped them through the pandemic: providing emotional support (12% more), checking in on overall well-being (7% more), and taking action to help manage burnout (5% more).

—McKinsey, Women in the Workplace, 2021

Female startup founders with all-female teams received $6.9 billion in venture funding in 2021, compared to $3.3 billion in 2020. And mixed-gender teams with at least one female founder received $47 billion in VC funding in 2021, up from $19 billion in 2020.

—PitchBook, All In Report, 2021

Boston Consulting Group surveyed 1,700 companies and found that companies with above-average total diversity had 19% higher innovation revenues on average.

—How Diverse Leadership Teams Boost Innovation, 2018

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

When more women are elected to office, policymaking about the quality of life and priorities of families, women, and ethnic and racial minorities increases.

—Why Women in Politics? Women Deliver, 2018

In addition, sector-specific research has found that women’s participation in politics affects the range of policy issues that arise and the types of solutions that are proposed in decision-making processes.

—Why Women in Politics? Women Deliver, 2018

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

One study based in Germany found that teams that included women performed better on highly complex tasks compared to all-male teams, in part because the range of different thinking patterns available increased team creativity overall.

—Team Composition Variables and Team Performance: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

Research has found that when a government mirrors the population it serves, local, state, and national entities better represent the population in decision-making processes.

—Representative Bureaucracy: Assessing the Evidence on Active Representation

If relations between men and women in a society are rooted in autocracy, exploitation, violence, insecurity + even terror, it primes the society for the same fate…when societies previously broke free from this toxic cycle of female subordination, they achieved a much more stable, prosperous and secure future for their people.
—WomenStats.org

A study of 91 countries found that women’s political status (defined as having a longer history of women’s suffrage and higher representation in parliament) had as strong a predictive relationship with lower carbon emissions as factors like a country’s level of urbanization had with predicting higher levels of carbon emissions.

—Women’s status and carbon dioxide emissions: A quantitative cross-national analysis, Journal Social Science Research, 2012

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

—Potential Projects, Spring 2022 Report

In 2021, Costa Rica was awarded the Earth Shot prize for its conservation model, in which local citizens are paid to preserve and restore natural ecosystems. The success can be attributed largely to the commitment of its citizens and the involvement of indigenous and rural women in climate adaptation, knowledge production, and efforts to strengthen resilience.

—Project Syndicate, 2022

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