Isabel Schnabel: Women are central, not just in central banks
(World News Science)

SPEECH Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Annual Meeting 2020 of the Verein für Socialpolitik Frankfurt am Main, 28 September 2020 Economics is one of the fields in which women are underrepresented.[1] This has been acknowledged for some time and numerous measures have been implemented to improve the situation. Nevertheless, the substantial gender imbalance has proven to be very persistent. Since central banks recruit mostly economics graduates, a similar imbalance is apparent in their staff numbers - something that the European Central Bank (ECB) is determined to change. In my remarks today, I will start by summarising some of the underlying causes...