Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it best when he was asked, upon announcing his half-women, half-men cabinet, why that was important to him. He simply responded, "Because it's 2015." Oh, Canada, I wish everyone felt that way. Now it's 2019, and, for the first time ever, there is no company in the S&P 500 that has an all-male board.

It was the hook that drew me into the arena of impact investing. I first heard about the concept of gender-lens investing from the innovative people at Criterion Institute 10 years ago. Immediately, I thought, "this is for me." From there, I became a donor and a cheerleader for Criterion Institute and their cause of creating a new investing viewfinder that would lift up women, and improve the world.

The U.S. Women's World Cup win has put the need for fair pay policies back into discussion. Of course, the usual arguments against this concept are also in play, with the idea that pay differentials are tied to differing commercial values between men's and women's sports and that there are different pay structures for performing different work.