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We know that there's a direct correlation between gender equality measured on multiple

indexes and the stability of investments.

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we know that it's going to play out at the state level in the United States as well.

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Hey everybody, I'm Gene Chatsky.

Thank you so much for joining us today on her money.

So I just want to start with some disturbing statistics.

Today, 97.8% of allocated investment capital is managed by men.

Only 41 of the Fortune 500 companies of which there are, yes, 500 are led by women.

Just 14% of private equity fund managers are women and less than 3% of venture capital

is directed toward enterprises run by women.

And yet we know that when more women are involved in financial decision making in households,

in governments with major corporations, with investment funds, money is managed

more efficiently, more effectively, investments are more profitable.

And companies and governments make decisions that better benefit individual investors

and the economy overall.

This is what our guests today refer to as the XX Edge or the Double X Edge.

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