Between 2012 and 2017, philanthropic support for women and girls’ organizations increased over 36 percent, according to the Women & Girls Index, which measures giving to women’s and girls’ causes. This year, in the midst of a women-centered care and economic crisis, there’s been a boom in charitable giving toward gender equality. In July, MacKenzie Scott, Melinda French Gates and Schusterman Family Philanthropies partnered to give $40 million to four initiatives promoting gender equality. Women philanthropists are more likely than their male counterparts to donate to women and girls, according to a 2017 study. The Women’s Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University has analyzed Internal Revenue Service data every few years to look at charitable giving toward women, and it has hovered under 2 percent of overall philanthropy since 2012.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2021 17:03 UTC