{"id":180615,"date":"2024-09-15T04:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-more-women-needed-as-central-bank-governors\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T04:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T02:30:07","slug":"namibia-more-women-needed-as-central-bank-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-more-women-needed-as-central-bank-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: More Women Needed As Central Bank Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Only 29 of the world&#8217;s 185 central banks are led by female governors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">According to the latest report by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), while the number of female appointments has increased from 23 last year, there is still a need for more women in this role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">&#8220;While there are more women in senior positions across central banks and top financial institutions this year, only 14% of the 63 institutions with new governors or chief executives in the index appointed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409030532.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 29 of the world&#8217;s 185 central banks are led by female governors. According to the latest report by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), while the number of female appointments has increased from 23 last year, there is still a need for more women in this role. &#8220;While there are more women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7089,5934,7321,4706,724,6424,257,254,6524],"class_list":["post-180615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-central","tag-governors","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}