OPINION: Leaders We Need, "Leaders" We Don't: A Follow-Up

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Following up on the other day's brief link-and-comment:

From the Guardian: Are female leaders more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis? - Plenty of countries with male leaders have also done well. But few with female leaders have done badly - filed by Jon Henley and Eleanor Ainge Roy

Opinions on specific cases cited therein, anyone?

I'm of a general opinion as follows, highly oversimplified beyond a doubt by my brain: women in politics - they get the job done.

Comments

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I think it's a lot of different reasons, largely having to do with how robust the social safety net is, how educated and socially minded the population is, and luck (BC did better than Ontario despite some serious initial bungling to a large degree because their March Break was later than ours).

But gender in a health crisis does play a role. As cynthia1960 rightly points out, there have been horrific women leaders. A pandemic is different than an economic crisis, though; women in general are more likely to be responsible for childcare and eldercare, and are more likely to factor these in.