"The companies that look at gender equality have less risk — it's that simple. In investing terms, it comes down to beta," Behar said."They have less risk because they are taking care of their employees, they are creating a culture that is going to attract the best and the brightest, they are going to be respectful of their workforce, and so they build better companies that tend to be more profitable over the long term.
And when it comes to the financial world, gender equality in asset management still lags behind other industries such as medicine and law., Morningstar data shows. Although change is being made, this is an industry that has historically been undiversified given that our natural tendency as human beings is to look for people who look like us, Lori Heinel, the global chief investment officer of State Street, told Insider."We believe diversity impacts fund performance for the better," Katherine Jollon Colsher, CEO of the nonprofit Girls Who Invest, said.