Wonkette Lagarde Relives Own Past as She Seeks More Women at IMF Christine Lagarde’s memory of an interview with a law firm in France at the start of her career still stings after three decades. Lagarde says she was told she would never become a partner because of her gender. “I said, ’Is that the case? Thank you very much.’ Now the first female managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Lagarde is in a position to offer women more appealing career prospects at the 188-member global organization, which lends to countries in crisis. By the fund’s own account, it has some catching up to do: Women at the Washington-based IMF hold about 21 percent of management jobs, less than at any peer institution including the World Bank and the European Commission. Lagarde participated today at a panel about women in economic decision-making at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where earlier this week she delivered a speech calling on policy makers to “remove obstacles to the path of women.” Close Open ‘Important’ Issue
French Politics The Washington Monthly Ben Smith: Political News and Analysis From our report on today's Pulitzer Prize announcement: Edward Snowden didn’t win a Pulitzer on Monday, but he might as well have. In a move certain to be interpreted as a vindication of the former government contractor’s efforts, the Pulitzer Prize Board on Monday awarded The Guardian US and The Washington Post its coveted Public Service award for reporting on the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance practices. The award was given for the “revelation of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security,” the committee said in its release. Snowden immediately declared the decision “a vindication.” “Today’s decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government,” he said in a statement to The Guardian. “There are times when a nominee is bigger than a prize.
Call Of The Wolf Long before Martin Wolf became the chief economics columnist for the Financial Times, he wrote the newspaper letters--lots and lots of letters. It was the early 1980s, the height of the Thatcher era, and Wolf was running research at a think tank in London that was sympathetic to the government's pro-trade agenda. The FT's letters section became the ideal place to take to task all those who would stand in the way of the first waves of globalization. With a British gentleman's cutting subtlety, Wolf parried with other letter writers over everything from tariffs to agricultural subsidies to the German textile industry. How does Mr Smith reach his conclusion? When stated in the above way, the argument looks a little silly. Today, Martin Wolf has moved on to bigger targets than Mr. Knowing that Wolf is widely read and highly esteemed, major players in the economic world court his approval. Wolf was born in 1946 in London. Julia Ioffe is a writer in New York City.
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