IMF executive board calls for greater gender equality among directors

Fund executive board encourages members to consider gender diversity when nominating directors

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Girl Power! IMF to encourage women into executive director roles

The International Monetary Fund executive board is encouraging member countries to "take gender diversity into consideration" when submitting nominations for executive directors and their staff.

Currently, Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe is the only female out of 24 executive directors at the fund, an average that has been maintained for the past decade.

Improving gender diversity among executive directors would lead to a more effective IMF, the executive board noted in a report to the fund's board of

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