Carney Bemoans All-Male Panel as He Seeks More Women at BOE

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said today the lack of women on the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee is “striking” and the bank needs to nurture female economists in its ranks.

“It is anomalous, it’s striking,” he said in an interview on BBC Radio 4 today. “What we have to do at the Bank of England is grow top female economists all the way through the ranks. That adds to the diversity in macroeconomic thinking, it adds to qualified candidates for the MPC including qualified candidates to be a future governor.”