- Exposure to female leaders improves people’s attitudes toward all women
- Women bring diverse views that improve political and corporate decision making
- International institutions have responsibility to design policies that tap female potential
Women have made many gains but reductions in gender disparity haven’t yet translated into equal opportunities, says the IMF’s Finance & Development (F&D) magazine, which focuses in its recently released June issue on how changes in the balance of power for women at work can improve the global economy.
Life is improving for women around the globe. Women are now more educated than men in many countries, for example. But equality at the top—in economic policymaking, in politics, in jobs that offer decision-making power—remains an aspiration. Achieving it would change the world altogether and translate into good news for both women and men
See full Press Release:
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2013/NEW053113A.htm
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