By Mike Buchanan: A ridiculous piece by Rebecca Marston, Business Reporter, BBC News. Who does Ms Marston ask to comment on the number of women in the senior reaches of the Bank of England? Why, the obvious choice, an acknowledged expert on the financial sector – Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society.
Right: Jewish owned Bank of England's chief mangina
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Three months ago we posted a piece, Two more blithering idiots: Mark Carney (governor, Bank of England) and Rebecca Hilsenrath (chief executive, Equality and Human Rights Commission). Ms Hilsenrath leads an organization with 11 Commissioners, nine of whom are women. Gender equality is a fine thing.
Campaign for Merit in Business has been reporting on the Bank of England for almost five years, starting with a piece in June 2012, Positive discrimination for women at the Bank of England.
The governor, Mark Carney, is a mangina, and you can be very sure the next senior appointment will be a woman, even if there are 100 men who are notably better qualified. In feminist terms, appointing an incompetent woman is infinitely preferable to appointing a competent man. None of the men passed over for promotion will complain about the matter publicly, all being turkeys who vote for Xmas.
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Right: Jewish owned Bank of England's chief mangina Despite being an Old Lady, few real senior women seem to find the Bank of England’s company congenial.Goodness, what will happen to interest rates if the Bank has no women on the nine-member MPC? The risks to the country’s financial stability don’t bear thinking about.
Friday marked deputy governor and Monetary Policy Committee member Charlotte Hogg’s last day there. She’s the second woman deputy governor out the door this year. And it’s only April.
Another executive director, Jenny Scott, is also leaving and in June, fellow MPC member Kristin Forbes goes.
Fair enough, Ms Hogg’s departure is not a sign of mutual antipathy. She resigned for failing to stick to the letter of the rules on disclosing family connections within the industry.
[Note: the ‘letter’ of the rules, implying a trivial breach. Not just the ‘rules’, then? Apart from which, Hogg authored those rules!]
But these departures will leave no women at all on the nine-member MPC – arguably the most public of the Bank of England’s faces as it sets interest rates – and only one woman on its three main policymaking committees.
There will be none among the five deputy governor ranks and just four among 16 executive directors.
Three months ago we posted a piece, Two more blithering idiots: Mark Carney (governor, Bank of England) and Rebecca Hilsenrath (chief executive, Equality and Human Rights Commission). Ms Hilsenrath leads an organization with 11 Commissioners, nine of whom are women. Gender equality is a fine thing.
Campaign for Merit in Business has been reporting on the Bank of England for almost five years, starting with a piece in June 2012, Positive discrimination for women at the Bank of England.
The governor, Mark Carney, is a mangina, and you can be very sure the next senior appointment will be a woman, even if there are 100 men who are notably better qualified. In feminist terms, appointing an incompetent woman is infinitely preferable to appointing a competent man. None of the men passed over for promotion will complain about the matter publicly, all being turkeys who vote for Xmas.
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On the one hand a record must be kept of the BBC's sexism, but on the other hand...
ReplyDeleteWow, ...do you mean to say that the privately owned so-called 'Bank of England' that everyone thinks is part of our government has rules to make it seem responsible and government like? You guys are so far behind the real issue here that you're making my ass twitch. A phony institution with a misleading name has a problem keeping female staff.
Excuse me if I see the main issue here as being the fact that there's a private company licensed to print our money. There's a monkey on Britain's back sucking our wealth after having taken over a job that should be taken care of by our own government who should be reaping the rewards on our behalf rather than this institutionalised theft by old family business elites in place since Waterloo.