Impact Shares YWCA Women’s Empowerment ETF Debuts on the NYSE

Today, nonprofit ETF sponsor Impact Shares introduces the Impact Shares YWCA Women's Empowerment ETF (NYSE:WOMN). The new ETF allows investors to deploy capital in companies that have aligned their business practices with gender-equality standards while also powering the future efforts of YWCA, an organization that has been a leader in women’s advocacy for the last 160 years. WOMN is designed to track the Morningstar Women’s Empowerment Index, built with the gender equality data and scoring methodology of Equileap, which represents 200 companies culled from 1200 of the largest U.S.-listed publicly traded companies based on each company’s Gender Equality Score, which is evaluated under a set of 19 gender equality criteria.