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>Please circulate all or the main part of the following:
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>The US-based group WEDO (Women's Environment & Development Organisation -
>www.wedo.org) have issued a Gender breakdown of top posts at the world's
>financial institutions. The clear point WEDO makes is that 'gender blind'
>recruitment practices are not only NOT a virtue, they actively enhance the
>grip of the minority sex, a point most men fail to understand.
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>Boards of Governors
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>International Monetary Fund: men 97.8% women 2.2%
>World Bank: men 94.5% women 5.5%
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>Boards of Directors
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>International Monetary Fund: men 100% women (guess)
>World Bank: men 91.7% women 8.3%
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>Despite repeated requests from WEDO, the World Trade Organisation refused to
>supply any data. Info on this welcome to - tim.symonds at shevolution.com
>
>The above institutions are in theory in existence to help narrow the gap
>between the world's poor and the better-off. Here is the breakdown of the
>world's poor:
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>men 30% women 70%
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>For further information please contact Doris Mpoumou at WEDO's Gender &
>Governance Program. doris at wedo.org
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>Eyecatcher's Senior Partner Lesley Abdela believes there is a direct causal
>relationship between an overwhelming number of one sex at the top of the
>world's financial institutions and the fact that more than 2/3rds of the
>world's poor are female, just as it could well be that women, democracy,
>society and the economy are badly served by legislatures that are
>overwhelmingly male. A survey in The Economist March 16 2002 showed that
>women were in near-balance in the parliaments of Sweden (43%), Denmark,
>Netherlands and Germany, and almost non-existent in the parliaments of Egypt
>(2%) and Turkey (5%).
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>An Eyecatcher Associates Public Service information release
>Eyecatcher Research & Training
>United Kingdom
>
>Tel. +44 (0) 1892 891 106
>tim.symonds at shevolution.com
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