Trudeau’s Central Bank Choice Hits Nerve Among Women in Finance

When Justin Trudeau unveiled his first cabinet with equal numbers of men and women, he explained the move with three words that are now famous: “Because it’s 2015.”

Now it’s 2020, and some women working in the trenches of Canadian finance are wondering if the push for equality doesn’t apply to them. They’re questioning, privately and publicly, how the prime minister’s avowedly feminist government could have passed over Carolyn Wilkins for Bank of Canada governor.