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Women in central banking: a focus on the controversial power–authority relation

In: Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Gender

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  • Guillaume Vallet

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The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on the persisting disparity in the position of women in central banks relative to men, relying throughout on Max Weber’s approach to power and authority. This framework helps to identify two obstacles faced by women in this milieu. The first obstacle has to do with women’s difficulties gaining access to institutions of power as outsiders. The second pertains to the discrepancy between power and authority that affects them upon becoming insiders: female central bankers persistently fall prone to an alleged lack of authority that denies them the degree of empowerment afforded to them. The chapter concludes by suggesting two proposals for promoting radical changes in central banking.

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  • Guillaume Vallet, 2024. "Women in central banking: a focus on the controversial power–authority relation," Chapters, in: Louis-Philippe Rochon & Sylvio Kappes & Guillaume Vallet (ed.), Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Gender, chapter 6, pages 138-158, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21790_6
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