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As someone who spent most of his career at the top level of economics, our guest editor Mervyn King is surpised by how few women he saw around him.

There are only five female bosses of FTSE 100 companies and these days only a third of students who choose to read economics at university are women.

Mervyn and James Naughtie speak to two of his female classmates from Cambridge Barbara Wielechowski and Hazel Moir about how they're careers have progressed as women in economics.

James Naughtie also discuss this with Jenny Scott who's an advisor to the current governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney.

Jenny told Today the Bank of England is now a "meritocracy" and that "it's made clear to women what opportunities are available to them" and once they apply "it's a level playing field."

First broadcast on the Today programme Monday 29th December 2014