BC president wants more women and minorities in the institution

The president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, said this Friday (31st) that one of the institution’s challenges is to seek to compose a more equitable framework in the next contests, with greater participation of women and minorities. This statement was made at the headquarters of the Federal Audit Court (TCU), in Brasília, during the Women and Men event Building a Public Sector with More Equity, promoted by TCU, the Federal Senate and the Central Bank. In a speech, Campos Neto spoke about the Diversity and Inclusion Program, launched this week by the Central Bank, with the purpose of using diversity as a “propelling source” of results. He said that the program proposes to articulate actions to promote equality of gender, race, sexual orientation and other audiences, so that the Central Bank becomes a more welcoming and inclusive organization for all its collaborators. Quadro Campos Neto recalled that the collegiate board of the BC has only two women among the eight members and that “they are worth six” and collaborate to improve the quality of the decisions taken”, since they “bring a different look to that of men”. “When we look at the bank’s staff, we are faced with a situation that shows that we can improve a lot in terms of female representation in our house”, recognized the president of the monetary authority. The BC’s active staff has 3,372 people, and only 23% are women. “When we look at whether the proportion is reflected in leadership positions, we see that, in general, it is. But the balance is still tipped towards a higher proportion of male than female commissioners. We currently have 19.4% women in commissioned roles,” he said. “What worries us is that this number has remained stable for many years, indicating the need for actions so that it grows, and that we can have a greater representation of women in leadership positions, at least to reflect the proportionality of active servants in our frame,” he added. A “great challenge” for the Central Bank is, according to Campos Neto, to encourage, in upcoming public tenders, “the participation and recruitment of more women and minorities”. “We would love for the ticket to our house to be more diverse,” he added.

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