Why don’t women lead in any sector,

in any country,

with men?

- as per ‘Breakthrough’, a report prepared from the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2009.

Currently, the only millennial promise yet unmet from the World Economic Forum in Davos is ‘Women in Leadership’. It has been proven that if women lead proportionately in business and elsewhere, profits will increase and the impact to their own communities will be positive.

So, we know the ‘what’ and the ‘why’… and now the Soluna Institute has been created as a non-profit institute and foundation, dedicated to finally addressing the ‘How’! Because the Soluna Institute is a non-profit, we are able to encourage individuals and businesses to jointly invest in research and education that is more comprehensive and actionable than the efforts that currently exist within siloed company walls.

We all profit when we work together, men and women, as evidenced by the following:

“Closing the gender gap… would have huge implications for the global economy, boosting US GDP by as much as 9%, EU GDP by 13% and Japanese GDP by 16%”
- Goldman Sachs’s Global Economics Paper No: 154

Women reinvest 90% of their income in the families and communities, compared with men who reinvest only 30% to 40%
- former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright

“Eliminating gender discrimination in relation to occupation and pay could increase women’s wages by about 50% and national output by 5%
– Rachael Mayanja, UN Special Advisor on gender

Companies with 3 or more women board of directors, return on equity was 16.7%, compared to the average of 11.5%
– Groundbreakers report from Davos

Restricting job opportunities for women costs the region between US$42 billion and US$46 billion a year in GDP growth.
- UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Countries