From Insights to Interventions: Addressing Gender Norms in Women’s Financial Inclusion

While constraints to women's financial inclusion (WFI) are well known, to effectively tackle these constraints, it is necessary to understand why women are excluded. What are the root causes—that is, what causes people and institutions to behave the way they do and how do these behaviors lead to women's financial exclusion? To fully address women's exclusion, funders and market facilitators must first determine and understand root causes before intervening to effectively address the resulting constraints.