The quiet, matter of fact takeover of women holding senior economist roles | Heather Stewart

From Rachel Reeves to the MPC, and thinktanks to unions and lobby groups, many of the authoritative voices we hear discussing economics are female

Rachel Reeves is rightly proud of being the first female chancellor of the exchequer, but she is far from alone: the commanding heights of economic policymaking in the UK are becoming much less male.

At a Westminster thinktank event last week about whether Labour is still a mission-led government", one of the most striking things was not the panel's answer, which you can probably guess, but the fact that it was made up of three women, and one token man.