Decades of data reveal women earn higher returns and fund stronger startups, yet women’s health remains one of the most underpriced asset classes in capital markets.
I love this article Maryann! Imagine where we'd be if women's health and needs were taken seriously and funded at even a fraction of the rate that men's health is!? Menopause, brain fog, heavy periods, pregnancy outcomes, depression, heart disease, etc- so much potential that we don't use as a society. Yet, women grow and become strong precisely because we have to exercise our creative strength all the time to try to stay even.
In the US we are still so far behind Iceland where women figured out how to go on strike in 1975 in order to show their society how it doesn't function without them and how ridiculous it is for women to receive less pay for doing the exact same job (pay should be job dependent with a performance dependent range, not based on the characteristics of the person doing the job).
I bring up Iceland because men there seem very well aware of the statistics of how women outperform men in the finance market - both financially and ethically. After the sub-prime lending crash, more women (who had warned of the dangers and risk) ended up taking over in Iceland as their country learned from the incident and worked to ensure it would never happen again (they actually prosecuted the individuals who were knowingly responsible unlike in the US where we threw more tax-payer money at the problem and bailed them out). Three women stepped in to take over the three largest banks in Iceland after that event and Jóhanna Sigurðardótti became their first female Prime Minister who created a cabinet that was half women. I'm always pleased and surprised to hear Icelandic men articulate so well the reasons why they voted women into positions. It would be nice to not be surprised, but that's a result of my US-based upbringing...
I hope the US can learn from the successful models of other countries instead of having to be brought to financial ruin like Iceland in order to pivot. What's the saying in addiction recovery programs? You have to hit rock bottom in order to reach a turning point?
I love this article Maryann! Imagine where we'd be if women's health and needs were taken seriously and funded at even a fraction of the rate that men's health is!? Menopause, brain fog, heavy periods, pregnancy outcomes, depression, heart disease, etc- so much potential that we don't use as a society. Yet, women grow and become strong precisely because we have to exercise our creative strength all the time to try to stay even.
In the US we are still so far behind Iceland where women figured out how to go on strike in 1975 in order to show their society how it doesn't function without them and how ridiculous it is for women to receive less pay for doing the exact same job (pay should be job dependent with a performance dependent range, not based on the characteristics of the person doing the job).
I bring up Iceland because men there seem very well aware of the statistics of how women outperform men in the finance market - both financially and ethically. After the sub-prime lending crash, more women (who had warned of the dangers and risk) ended up taking over in Iceland as their country learned from the incident and worked to ensure it would never happen again (they actually prosecuted the individuals who were knowingly responsible unlike in the US where we threw more tax-payer money at the problem and bailed them out). Three women stepped in to take over the three largest banks in Iceland after that event and Jóhanna Sigurðardótti became their first female Prime Minister who created a cabinet that was half women. I'm always pleased and surprised to hear Icelandic men articulate so well the reasons why they voted women into positions. It would be nice to not be surprised, but that's a result of my US-based upbringing...
I hope the US can learn from the successful models of other countries instead of having to be brought to financial ruin like Iceland in order to pivot. What's the saying in addiction recovery programs? You have to hit rock bottom in order to reach a turning point?
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