Private equity has long had the reputation of being a male-dominated industry, but a small but growing number of investment firms are making gender diversity a priority.
Now a new study quantifies how having greater gender diversity could be an advantage to firms by raising their returns and reducing deal making failure rates. The study, conducted by French business school HEC Paris and MVision Private Equity Advisers found that deal teams that included women produced on average internal rates of return 12% higher than deals led by all-male teams.