Strength in Numbers
Women are a powerful force when we work together. Working alone or against each other is counterproductive. Combining our networks, resources, and perspectives to push each other forward is the smartest path towards equity. Women have the power to amplify the voices of other women, support their ideas, champion their work, and challenge limiting beliefs about what a woman can do and who she can be. Supporting and encouraging each other is the smartest way. We welcome support from male allies and celebrate their dedication to overcoming the huge challenges that women and girls face in the workplace.
Good for Business
Decades of data has demonstrated that women improve business outcomes and are particularly attuned to risk management. Having a diversity of cognitive perspectives in leadership balances out decision-making and steadies the ship. Study after study have concluded that cognitive diversity is necessary for the best leadership. When women are included in the top ranks of a business as decision-makers and visible leaders with impact, it benefits the bottom line.
Reduce Loss of Talent
Talent is distributed evenly in the general population. In the private funds industry however, the proportion of women represented is significantly below that of the broader financial industry and the corporate world. Including more women in the private funds industry, particularly the pipeline of next generation female talent, can reduce the brain drain to other industries, such as tech. Retaining up and coming female talent requires flexibility in workplace environments and a second look at long-ingrained patterns of how to hire, how to promote, how we perceive talent and power and why we value masculine traits over feminine.
Capital is Power
Private investment funds are concentrated pools of capital that have the power to direct that capital to influence markets and the economy. We believe that when more women are in these powerful decision-making seats and in control of these pools of capital, we will see profits, positive investment outcomes, and interesting ideas from women. Women with capital have the power to invest in ideas that benefit women and girls. We need more women to launch funds to support these ideas. We are missing almost half the population of talent (the women); think of what is possible when that missing half is invited to the table.