The needs a new president and "would strongly encourage” female candidates.
A year ago, we took stock of whether women lead, or had led, 48 international orgs.
Re-upping headlines, inc multilateral banks poor track record - five points:
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1) 23 of the 48 orgs had never had a women in charge (yellow blocks, inc the World Bank).
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2) The UN bodies have nearly achieved equality (at least in the top job).
There were 15 women and 17 men as heads at the end of 2021.
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3) But the main 13 multilateral banks have only every had one female head - Odile Renaud-Basso at the EBRD.
This is still true now (IADB changed head but appointed a man)
This suggests a particular problem at the MDBs, and in terms of the pipeline of suitable candidates
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4) The and identified several female leads.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; head of the WTO
Samantha Power, US AID chief
Gayle Smith, of the ONE Campaign
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5) For more on this colleagues and leader our gender & equality work
cgdev.org/topics/gender-
The original analysis with here:
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