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How informal work, visibility, and narrative shape women’s financial power Initiatives that center on women’s roles as founders and entrepreneurs promote gender equity and break barriers to who can be economic power players. Photo courtesy FoundHer. Efforts to expand women’s economic participation often rely on familiar benchmarks: counting women-owned businesses, raising general awareness, and documenting systemic barriers. While these high-level indicators offer a starting

Women founders implement work structures that work for them. Photo credit: Aleh Tsikhanau on Unsplash. Traditional scale-ups often equate presence with productivity. Across Manila, Jakarta, and Singapore, women founders are demonstrating that asynchronous execution offers a powerful model for retention and sustainable growth. By standard education metrics, Southeast Asia appears to lead the world in gender parity. Across the region’s major tech hubs, young women earn degrees

There is a clear disconnect in how businesses grow in the Philippines. Kerubin Capital’s Managing Partner, Tina di Cicco, mentors Filipina entrepreneurs at the 2025 FoundHer Summit. Photo courtesy of FoundHer. Women build and run more than half of the micro and small enterprises in the country. They manage teams, build customer loyalty, and keep cash flows healthy. But when these same businesses reach the point where they need bank credit to scale, they hit an invisible wall.

Kerubin Capital co-hosted a lunch conversation with Investing in Women, its partners, and founders to discuss the impact of gender-smart investing. Photo courtesy of Kerubin Capital. The Philippines is leaving an estimated $190 billion on the table. The mistake? Treating females in the workforce strictly as a labor issue, rather than a capital deployment opportunity. Increasing female labor force participation by just 0.5 percentage points annually adds $190 billion to nat

The Philippines just had its best year in gender parity — and one of its worst for women in government. The Philippines just posted its best result in years — and, in the same report, one of its quietest setbacks. In the World Economic Forum's 2025 Global Gender Gap Report, the two facts sit side by side, and neither cancels out the other. The Headline Numbers In the WEF's 2025 Global Gender Gap Report, the Philippines ranks 20th out of 148 economies, climbing five spots fr

Closing the region's funding gap requires more women making investment decisions, not just more women launching startups. The SEA Pacific Frontier Team Jul 06, 2026 The most iconic moment in the history of Shark Tank is when Aaron Krause, the inventor of Scrub Daddy, waltzed into the tank to pitch a highly engineered polymer foam sponge with a smiley-face design. The male investors dismissed it. Lori Greiner, the sole woman on the panel, did not. She understood the household

Disclaimer: This is the English translation of an article in Vietnamese, originally published by Nhan Dan Newspaper at https://nhandan.vn/binh-dang-gioi-khong-chi-la-muc-tieu-xa-hoi-ma-la-dong-luc-kinh-te-post936497.html. Australia’s global Ambassador for Gender Equality, H.E. Ms. Michelle O’Byrne, speaking at the Dialogue on Gender Norms and Women’s Economic Empowerment event on 4 December 2025. Early in her tenure, Australia’s global Ambassador for Gender Equality, H.E. Ms.

With the goal of advancing gender equality in Southeast Asia, this report presents a cross-country analysis of gender attitudes, behaviours, and advocacy in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. This research was conducted by the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) at the Australian National University, in partnership with Investing in Women. Research overview Despite notable progress in recent decades, gender inequality remains one of the most persi

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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - In the Philippines, a country known for its relative gender parity and supportive stance towards female...

At Kerubin Capital, we invest in women who are driving innovation. Across the Philippines, female founders continue to build companies...