I do fear that organisations could do everything in their power to eliminate biases and obstacles to female participation, but that it won’t be enough, because of the presumptions operating within at least some couples. It isn’t all bad news for equality of the sexes in economics, though, at least not at the Reserve Bank.
Europe and Asia also co-operate closely through the ASEM (Asia-Europe meeting) process, launched in Bangkok in 1996. This has now developed into a broad forum for in-depth consultations between European and Asian partners and has prompted a range of co-operation initiatives.