Israel: Acting bank governor says sexism may be behind PM snub

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'Acting Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug said her gender may have something to do with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to overlook her for the top post at the central bank.

In an interview published in Yedioth Ahronoth Wednesday, asked if she thought there was sexism involved in Netanyahu’s disinclination to select her for the job — when previous governor Stanley Fischer recommended her, and two intended appointees withdrew — Flug answered: “Maybe… Until then I had never come across the so-called ‘glass ceiling’ in my professional career. I’ve always known that women carry a heavier burden than men because of the two-fold job of being a mother and a career woman, but I believed that it is in our power to combine and balance the two responsibilities… Only in the last two months, when I realized the intensity of the resistance against my appointment to governor of the bank, did the thought occur to me that maybe my disqualification was connected — also — to my being a woman.”'