{"id":1848,"date":"2013-08-31T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2013-10-20T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T11:30:39","slug":"global-finance-is-creaking-maybe-it-needs-a-few-more-women-to-prop-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/global-finance-is-creaking-maybe-it-needs-a-few-more-women-to-prop-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Global finance is creaking.  Maybe it needs a few more women to prop it up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chart below (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21584386-unsteady-march-diversity\">The unsteady march of diversity<\/a>) from The Economist tells the story that finance made a brief move towards balance a couple of decades ago, but has since reverted to a masculine dominance.\u00a0 Coincidentally, there have been signs of increasing permissiveness, even corruption, and a backlash of patchy regulations which have harmed efficiency and effectiveness without improving transparency or reducing transaction costs.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/2013-08-31\">same edition<\/a> had articles in the Finance and economics section like:\u00a0 China\u2019s big banks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21584331-four-worlds-biggest-lenders-must-face-some-nasty-truths-giant-reality-check\">Giant reality-check<\/a>, Crashing exchanges <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21584360-new-type-market-crash-proliferates-code-blue\">Code blue<\/a>, Global house prices <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21584361-america-surges-much-europe-sinks-mixed-messages\">Mixed messages<\/a>, Free exchange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21584351-how-can-emerging-economies-protect-themselves-rich-worlds-monetary\">Horns of a trilemma.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe we need more women at the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130831femalecentralbankers.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1849\" alt=\"20130831femalecentralbankers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130831femalecentralbankers.png?resize=595%2C367\" width=\"595\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130831femalecentralbankers.png?w=595&amp;ssl=1 595w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130831femalecentralbankers.png?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chart below (The unsteady march of diversity) from The Economist tells the story that finance made a brief move towards balance a couple of decades ago, but has since reverted to a masculine dominance.\u00a0 Coincidentally, there have been signs of increasing permissiveness, even corruption, and a backlash of patchy regulations which have harmed efficiency &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/global-finance-is-creaking-maybe-it-needs-a-few-more-women-to-prop-it-up\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global finance is creaking.  Maybe it needs a few more women to prop it up.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-holonics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-tO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}