Generation Euro Students Award 2023 QA ⑧

2023年5月31日にECB主催で開催された Generation Euro Students Award での、スペインチームからラガルド総裁への質問。
 他チームからの質問は下記記事のいちばん下のリンクから辿れます。

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スペインチームの質疑応答は、26:10 ~ 27:45

Question

Our question is, you are the first female President of the ECB.
Statistics show show the low percentage held by wemen in high institutional positions.
So from your personal experience, what initiative could be adopted to increase these femele presentation ?
And do you think that the fact that the ECB has a female President has a certain positive impact on the opinion of the institution and its proximity to the general public ?

Answer

I tell you something, I don't know if it has changed the perception of people, but it has certainly changed the perception of many young women who believe that they can do it too. If I can do it, they can do it. And if only for that reason, I'm very very happy to do the job that I'm doing.

How can there be more?
They can be targets, they can be quarters, they can be pipeline buildings, they can be scholarships.
It's a fact that in econometrics and in macro economy and in monetary policy studies, there are way fewer women than men. 

Those who are competing in those classes, in those universities are generally top-notch female economists.

And that's good. It is good for all of us, for girls, for boys, and for the institution itself.

But thank you so much for asking the question.

Words

proximity

[uncountable]
nearness in distance or time

perception

[countable, uncountable]
the way you think about something and your idea of what it is like

top-notch

[adjective informal]
something that is top-notch is of the highest quality or standard