{"id":30374,"date":"2019-01-24T06:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30374"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:23:02","slug":"shinzo-abe-took-the-poor-mans-route-to-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30374","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe took the poor man&#8217;s route to Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.4158653846\">\n<p>JPMorgan Chase CEO <strong>Jamie Dimon<\/strong> is a huge \u2014 huge! \u2014 fan of French President <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dimon said Tuesday in Davos that he attended a dinner this week hosted by Macron. (The French president canceled his Davos trip to deal with violent protests at home.) The bank executive clearly came away impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Macron is \u201cexceptional,\u201d Dimon said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The right policy, the right methods. He can communicate it well. It\u2019s analytical, It\u2019s factual, He wants business to help. He wants to lift up the people with lower incomes, he wants more income equality, he wants more women back to work. He wants the kids educated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cThe guy is unbelievable. And he\u2019s the hope of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dimon was speaking at an event on women\u2019s issues sponsored by companies including JPMorgan (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=JPM\" target=\"_blank\">JPM<\/a>). included a broader discussion of gender equity.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if JPMorgan would release unadjusted data on its gender pay gap, Dimon demurred. Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/16\/business\/ciitigroup-gender-pay-gap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Citigroup became the first big US bank to release global data on its median pay gap<\/a>, without adjusting for factors like job level and location. It found that women are paid 71% of the median that men earn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnadjusted is for most companies you\u2019re going to find \u2014 and Citi came out, it\u2019s going to be around 70% \u2014 that\u2019s because for most companies, you have far more female receptionists and female tellers \u2026 those are good opportunities to people. And in and of itself is not a bad thing,\u201d Dimon said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that gender pay gaps \u201ccould be a bad thing\u201d if they exist because women aren\u2019t being promoted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to use numbers like that you have to use them wisely,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is a huge \u2014 huge! \u2014 fan of French President Emmanuel Macron. Dimon said Tuesday in Davos that he attended a dinner this week hosted by Macron. (The French president canceled his Davos trip to deal with violent protests at home.) The bank executive clearly came away impressed. Macron is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}