In recent years, the Central Bank established a diversity and inclusion working group, which is chaired by my colleague, Deputy Governor Ed Sibley. The group publishes a bi-annual action plan to support our strategic intent which aims to accelerate progress and to help embed diversity and inclusion into our everyday people policies and practices.
Also, the unemployment rate has been at around 3 percent, remaining at a high level compared with that prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. As presented in the right panel of Chart 7, the real wage income of employees has been on a recovery trend reflecting the employment situation I just mentioned, but it has not reached the pre-pandemic level.