The doors to financial empowerment and inclusion are typically shut to women entrepreneurs. Greater access to capital could help us unlock them, yet women comprise a small portion of fund managers in the private equity sector – the people who serve as gatekeepers to capital for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The International Finance Corporation found that only 11% of senior investment professionals in emerging markets are women. And the situation is no better in developed markets, where only 10% of these professionals are women.
