Investing in the social sector is necessary to protect the welfare of a nation: fromtechnology up to support for families, the member states of the European Union have all contributed to safeguarding and protecting the most fragile and deficient sectors of their society through funding for public bodies and companies.
This is how i thematic fundsIn English Social Bonds, aimed at filling gaps which, otherwise, would negatively affect the entire public structure.
The Social Bonds then branch out into numerous different funds, including the Gender bondwhich acts directly on gender disparity and on professional and economic differences between men and women: Recently, for example, it was the state of the Kyrgyzstan to issue funds for women's empowerment, an important event and which brought the country into line with the standards of the United Nations.
Within the 2030, in fact, the UN aims to fill the so-called altogether gender gap, the substantial difference in terms of salary and corporate hierarchy between men and women; however, the data speak of a world still in the early stages of this process.
Secondo Anita Bhatia, deputy executive director of UN Women (United Nations body for women's equality and empowerment), have been released for now between 50 and 300 gender bonds, but it is estimated that, in reality, only 1% sustainable bonds aim to support women.
It confirms it We Wealth in his interview with Bhatia, who explains: “To get results, gender bonds must be linked to credible strategies, programs and policies that advance gender equality and women's empowerment beyond the business as usual. [...] Public broadcasters can also use them to finance a better supply of childcare services, in order to redistribute the care responsibilities that, to date, fall predominantly on women”.
