Speaking at a session on 'Women in Economic Decision-Making', Lagarde said that women are doing a wonderful job wherever they have got the leadership positions, be it in banks or other sectors.

The "positive contagion" on financial markets is not yet feeding into the economy at large but the euro zone should see recovery in the second half of the year, ECB president Mario Draghi said on Friday.

The European Commission unveiled a deal on Friday with Hewlett-Packard, Telefonica and eight other telecoms and technology firms aimed at filling up to 700,000 high tech job vacancies.