Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.
Christine LagardeThe Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.
Christine LagardeIn the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.
Christine Lagarde