Investments aren't gender-neutral when female entrepreneurs face a $320bn credit gap

'Gender lens investing' aims to tackle the marginalization of women by asking investors to make gender equality part of the decision-making process

Bertha Nzabanita survived the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, but her husband did not. As a single mother, she struggled to make do with the one coffee field and dilapidated house he had left her. Then Nzabanita discovered Musasa, a coffee cooperative that gave her and other widows from the genocide a stable market for their coffee allowing them to increase their income.

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