Our session’s title, Gender and Economic Policy-Making, seems to be an appropriate starting point for contextualizing the topic we will discuss on this panel. In fact, the title itself may suggest a unidirectional focus of this session on the range of effects gender can have on economic policymaking, including both policy deliberations and policy decisions.
I am pleased to have once again the opportunity to address the National Association for Business Economics. My remarks today will focus on recent developments in the financial sector and the economy and on the challenges we face.