As You Sow is gearing up to release its fifth Invest Your Values screening tool, Gender Equality Funds

Oakland, California — Nov. 13 2018 — As You Sow is gearing up to release its fifth Invest Your Values screening tool, Gender Equality Funds, on Nov. 13. Gender Equality Funds is a free, online tool that enables individual and institutional investors to apply a gender lens to mutual fund and ETF investments.

Gender Equality Funds screens the specific holdings of about 5,000 of the most commonly-held U.S. mutual funds—including financial giants like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street—against a database detailing individual company performance on 12 key gender equality performance indicators. These 12 indicators measure policies that demonstrate a commitment to gender diversity and gender balance in the overall leadership, management, and workforce of companies, combining into an overall gender equality portfolio score for each mutual fund.