{"id":59632,"date":"2013-08-09T13:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/08\/09\/239076\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:06:22","slug":"bank-of-england-has-a-striking-lack-of-top-female-economists-its-new-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/08\/09\/59632\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England has a \u201cstriking\u201d lack of top female economists, its new governor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, August 9. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> The Bank of England has a \u201cstriking\u201d lack of top female economists, its new Governor Mark Carney said, according to The Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>He pledged to create a pool of candidates for its rate-setting committee who will eventually become good enough to be the first female governor in the Bank\u2019s 300-year history.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Bank has to \u201cgrow top female economists all the way through the ranks\u201d. The ultimate aim is to \u201cadd to the diversity of macro-economic thinking and add to qualified candidates for\u00a0 the monetary policy committee, including qualified candidates for a future governor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Only four of 33 senior economists to serve as rate-setters since the Bank was granted independence in 1997 have been women.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has been male- dominated since housing specialist Kate Barker\u2019s term came to an end more than three years ago \u2014 in contrast to the United States, where the Federal Reserve vice chairwoman Janet Yellen is a leading candidate to take over\u00a0 the top job. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of England has a \u201cstriking\u201d lack of top female economists, its new Governor Mark Carney said, according to The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15418,13334,309],"class_list":{"0":"post-59632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bank-en-2","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-309"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}