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Empowering Women
Empowerment means to have agency over one’s life and equal opportunity to participate in society. Women’s empowerment, or female empowerment, is the process by which women gain influence and equal opportunity to pursue personal, social and economic endeavors, engaging in all parts of society on the same basis as men.
- 75% of sexual harassment incidents are committed by someone in a position of authority over the victim
- 60% of workplaces lack comprehensive policies to prevent sexual harassment
ZIPDO EDUCATION REPORT 2026 — Workplace Sexual Harassment Statistics — Collector: Alexander Eser, 5/30/25
- In the top leadership teams of the S&P 100, men are 2.5 times more likely than women to hold executive positions and are 10.2 times more likely to serve as CEOs.
- Only six S&P 100 organizations have achieved gender parity on their senior leadership teams.
Source: Harvard Law — Gender Diversity in the C-Suite - By 2025, women led 11% of Fortune 500 companies, up from 2.4% in 2011, but men still occupy about 90% of CEO positions in major U.S. firms.
Source: Fortune - Women make up 50.5% of the US population but only 29% of executives in S&P 100 top leadership, while men hold 71% of those positions.
Source: FINCA - In the US, 81% of women report experiencing some form of sexual harassment in their lifetime.
- 1 billion women around the world are unbanked, without access to a formal banking institution.
Source: FINCA
“Empowering women is key to building a future we want.” — Amartya Sen
We give an "A" grade to ratings with a score of 80-100, a "B" grade to ratings with a score of 60-80, and so on. Ratings are roughly normally distributed around a mean of 50.
Causes form the basis of impact ratings and analysis on Ethos ESG. Ethos currently has 45 causes available, based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). See descriptions of all causes, SDGs, metrics, and explore in more detail at www.ethosesg.com/definitions.
Light Money focuses on what we think are of the most common areas of concern for the public today based on what investors are telling us is important. These 6 causes are also personally near and dear to the team at Wayfinder Wealth Management.
The 3 metrics shown in the above 6 scorecards were selected by pulling Ethos data for each cause, sorting by weighting, and selecting the highest weighted metrics that had a measurable result while trying to minimize overlap and subjective scoring. These metrics are also aligned with the most common shareholder resolutions that are filed . For a full list of all causes, metrics, screens, and more, please visit www.ethosesg.com/definitions.