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Does COVID-19 Prove Women Are Best Suited to Lead in a Crisis? There are many lessons to be learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic and one of them might be how the world is in desperate need of a greater number of women at the highest level of politics.
In the global fight against the Coronavirus, New Zealand and Germany are notable exceptions, with the former having almost completely "squashed" the virus after recording only one death, and the latter experiencing nowhere near the level of suffering that’s occurring in France, Italy, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands and the UK.
New Zealand and Germany are also notable for the fact that both have female leaders - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Chancellor Angela Merkel, an all too rare reality in the sphere of international politics.
Ardern's handling of the crisis has been described as a "masterclass" in political leadership, with Professor Michael Baker - one of the world's leading epidemiologists - describing New Zealand as a "huge standout as the only Western country that's got an elimination goal" for the virus, while Merkel has been lauded for pulling out the "bazooka" against the threat.
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