The paper offers analyses of public data on gender gaps in savings, credit, insurance, and pensions in India.

The RICHES Toolkit includes 13 guides and trainings containing 46 tools. It has been designed for Women’s Economic Empowerment Actors to equip them with practical ideas and tools to integrate and assess child protection and safe business practices throughout their work.

The business correspondent model in India enables the banking system to expand its outreach at a low cost and offer essential financial services in remote and underserved areas. This paper share a supply-side perspective on challenges and opportunities for expanding women agent network in India.

This case study research shares the insights of past program participants in order to motivate other aspiring women leaders, provoke conversation, and inspire new career pathways.

The second installment in a new case study series from FinEquity on informed design and digital financial services (DFS). This study examines product and service design by Lucy, a neobank for entrepreneurial women—specifically Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore—providing DFS and business-building tools and training through a mobile app to help them start and grow their businesses. 

The first in a new case study series from FinEquity on informed design and digital financial services (DFS). This study examines product and service design by WomenSave, an organization targeting poor (living on less than $2 a day) women in underserved areas of Uganda through financial literacy training and financial advisory services, access to mobile money and goal-based savings plans.

The toolkit, First Step: Integrating Gender into Technology-Enabled Financial Sector Supervision, is intended to help supervisory authorities at all levels of gender-awareness. 

Gender stereotypes are a root cause undermining economic equality between women and men, particularly in the entrepreneurial space. The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women shares initial findings from their recent report investigating the issue. 

Differences in product awareness show that we need to look deeper at sub-segments among women if we want to achieve equality of financial access.  

Rathi Mani-Kandt, Head of Women's Economic Empowerment at CARE USA, sat down with us to discuss CARE's work with women entrepreneurs in Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam, her priorities in 2022 for women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment and what the FinEquity community means to her.