Kristalina Georgieva on Gender Parity: Inequalities Erode Society

02/11/2019 18 min
Kristalina Georgieva on Gender Parity: Inequalities Erode Society

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Episode Synopsis

In her first IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings as IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva talks with Foreign Policy Magazine's Ravi Agrawal about breaking down barriers to women's career growth. Georgieva is the first person from an emerging market economy, and only the second woman to lead the IMF since its inception in 1944. In this podcast, Georgieva and Agrawal discuss the economic benefits of gender equality and the societal transformation that is required to correct the injustices of the past. Read the IMFBlog on The Economic Cost of Devaluing "Women's Work"