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International Women’s Day 2026

Closing the gender gap in financial literacy

Monday, 2 March 2026

Frankfurt am Main

15:00 – 16:30 CET

Building on last year’s success, the ECB event to mark International Women’s Day 2026 will stress the importance of closing the gender gap in financial literacy.

The event will bring together policymakers and educators to showcase progress on the five commitments agreed last year, to highlight achievements and to call for further coordinated action across the Eurosystem.

In conversation, President Lagarde and high-level guests will discuss the importance of financial literacy from the perspective of central banks, banking supervision authorities and European institutions, and will focus on closing the gender gap through harmonised efforts across Europe.

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Programme

Monday, 2 March 2026
15:00

Opening remarks

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank 

15:10

In conversation

  • Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank
  • Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Professor, Mannheim Institute for Financial Education (MIFE)
  • Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
  • Yannis Stournaras, Governor, Bank of Greece
  • Moderator: Patrick Jenkins, Financial Times
16:10

Q&A and open forum

16:25

Closing remarks

Five Commitments

The ECB and National Central Banks agreed to deliver on the following five commitments:

1st Commitment

Be a voice for change and keep raising awareness in the respective countries, institutions and communities.

2nd Commitment

Strengthen impact measurement of financial literacy initiatives by developing common evaluation criteria and indicators to systematically assess what works in closing the gender gap.

3rd Commitment

Design and implement targeted financial literacy initiatives specifically for women, addressing key life stages and barriers where the gender gap is most pronounced, in order to measurably reduce disparities in financial knowledge, confidence and participation.

4th Commitment

Develop a comprehensive and harmonised dataset across Europe, extend data collection to countries that lack these data and create standardised measures for financial literacy.

5th Commitment

Enhance financial literacy efforts in three key teachable moments of a person’s life: (i) early education, (ii) taking out a major loan (e.g. buying a house or starting a business), and (iii) building a pension.

  1. These commitments have been updated on the 2nd March 2026 at the International Women's Day 2026 Conference

This programme may be subject to change without notice.

Audiovisual notice: A photographer will be present at the event taking photographs for our internet/intranet pages. If you prefer not to have your photograph taken, please approach the photographer directly.

General information

Venue

European Central Bank

Main building – Conference room C5.01

Sonnemannstrasse 20

60314 Frankfurt am Main

Germany

Language

English

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