International Monetary Fund (IMF) prepares to replace its disgraced former managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, e-mails obtained exclusively by CNN offer a unique insight into the mood among staff.
While Strauss-Kahn was busy penning a heartfelt goodbye letter sent out on Sunday, documents reveal some of the fund's female employees had already been calling for change: namely, for a woman to run the IMF.
The New York Times published an open letter signed by 676 female IMF workers protesting the piece, yet internal communications paint a different picture -- with some of the women at the fund bemoaning a "male dominated workplace," where "gender stats speak for themselves."
One female worker asks whether the IMF would be better off with a woman in charge "to end such a negative impression." The writer tells colleagues, "we now have a good opportunity to voice it out."
Another e-mail reads "would be naïve to pretend that there is no glass ceiling."
Read the full e-mail exchange here
Responding to the leaked e-mails, IMF spokesman Bill Murray told CNN that the fund "is not satisfied with the level of diversity at senior management level and is working to improve this.
The fund said Friday that it aims to complete the selection process by June 30.
Strauss-Kahn was accused of trying to rape a maid last week in his suite at the Sofitel hotel in New York on May 14, charges he denies.
The ex-IMF chief was released from Rikers Island jail on Friday and is staying with his wife, Anne Sinclair. Before his arrest, he was considered a likely candidate for president of France.
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