{"id":273231,"date":"2019-04-16T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDQvMTYvZXRoaW9waWEtcy1hbGwtZmVtYWxlLWJhbmstYnJhbmNoLWFuZ2Vycy10d2l0dGVyLXVzZXJzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:32","slug":"ethiopias-all-female-bank-branch-and-the-debate-it-sparked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273231","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s all-female bank branch and the debate it sparked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, plans by the <strong>Commercial Bank of Ethiopia<\/strong> for an all-female branch triggered sharp social-media argument\u2014praise for women\u2019s professional space on one side, skepticism and cultural pushback on the other.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-356312\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Zemen-Bank-2.jpg?fit=320%2C180&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia\u2019s all-female bank branch and the debate it sparked\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Africanews captured the online storm. Underneath the Twitter heat sits a real policy theme: how state banks, hiring, and customer service design include or exclude women as workers and clients.<\/p>\n<p>Gender-and-finance moments like this are culture and political economy at once. They belong in the archive beside cabinet parity headlines from the same reform years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/04\/16\/ethiopia-s-all-female-bank-branch-angers-twitter-users\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s all-female bank branch &#8216;angers&#8217; Twitter users&nbsp;&nbsp;africanewsThe plan by an Ethiopian bank to operate an all-female branch has received varied reactions from social media users. The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, CBE, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":356312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Zemen-Bank-2.jpg?fit=320%2C180&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-194X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600576,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273231\/revisions\/600576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}