ABSTRACT

This paper uses a theoretical framework drawing on the literatures of feminist institutionalists and the literature on expertise provided by IOs to examine two areas in the IMF that we might expect to see change under a female Managing Director: increased gender equity among the professional and managerial staff economists at the IMF, and increases in programmes designed to improve women’s economic opportunities through the development of policies to increase female labour force participation. Evidence to support increased gender diversity among IMF staff economists as a result of Lagarde’s appointment is not found, confirming that informal rules in institutions reduce women’s access to positions of power. Increases in the number of IMF policy documents advocating the economic benefits of increased female labour force participation beginning in 2014 were found. These are attributed to Lagarde’s influence over policy documents and the adoption of the World Bank’s discourse on “gender equity as smart economics.”

摘要

本文使用了一个理论框架，借鉴了女权主义制度主义者的文献和 IO 提供的专业知识文献，研究了国际货币基金组织中我们可能会看到女性总裁领导下发生变化的两个领域：专业和管理人员中性别平等的增加国际货币基金组织的经济学家，并增加旨在通过制定提高女性劳动力参与的政策来改善女性经济机会的计划。由于拉加德的任命，没有发现支持国际货币基金组织工作人员经济学家性别多样性增加的证据，证实机构中的非正式规则减少了妇女获得权力职位的机会。发现从 2014 年开始，国际货币基金组织的政策文件数量有所增加，提倡增加女性劳动力参与的经济效益。这归因于拉加德对政策文件的影响以及世界银行关于“性别平等作为智能经济学”的论述的采用。