Once again, three men are set to lead the Bank of Japan, underscoring the hurdles women face in reaching leadership positions in a country that ranks the lowest among advanced economies for gender equality. | Reuters
The BOJ ranked 142nd of 185 central banks on gender equality, according to a report last year by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. About 11 percent of central banks surveyed had a female governor, a record high, while 37 percent had female deputy governors.
Shinzo Abe, a long-serving predecessor of Kishida’s, had touted “womenomics”, vowing to make Japan a nation where “women can shine”. But his government delayed from 2020 to 2030 its target of boosting the proportion of women in leadership posts to 30 percent .Japan has had two women foreign ministers but none as prime minister or finance minister. Tokyo elected its first female mayor in 2016.
Some were pleasantly surprised that three women – think tank head Yuri Okina, BOJ executive Tokiko Shimizu and former BOJ board member Sayuri Shirai – were being touted for a BOJ deputy role in recent weeks.
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