4th August 2020: The pandemic COVID-19 has taken its toll all over the world, crunching the world economies and putting extreme pressures on the health care system.
After observing the pandemic conditions world-wide, economists have said that women world leaders have done really better at handling COVID-19 pandemic.
Part of the reason that women leaders are better rising to the COVID-19 challenge is that there are just so few of them. Of 194 countries included in the researchers’ analysis, only 19 are led by women leaders
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The research, conducted by two economists at UK universities, suggests that female world leaders have handled the pandemic much better than their male counterparts.
The economists paired each female-led country with that of the male-led, which had the comparative economy, population, and healthcare system.
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The video from the World Economic Forum summarises it all beautifully:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CDbCke8jfb8/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
The study found that women leaders locked- down their countries significantly earlier, after fewer COVID-19 cases and deaths overall.
By early June, New Zealand, led by 39-year-old prime minister Jacinda Ardern, seemed to have rid her nation of the virus.
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Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has been praised by others around the world for her strong response to the crisis, and for the low infection rate in her country.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s COVID-19 response has won her high approval ratings. She gave the public clear and scientific explanations about policy decisions.
Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg was widely praised for addressing children about COVID-19.
The economists have pointed out that women may be less willing to take a risk with human lives but more willing to take risks when it comes to the economy.
Some of the research work also shows that women adopt a more democratic and participative leadership style.
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Researchers also think that women are more empathetic, an idea echoed by Hillary Clinton who, on a June panel, said on the subject: “Women have been demonstrating the kind of inclusive, empathetic, science-based leadership that we should be trying to promote across the world.
The study also stated that female leaders are more humble, and they welcome diverse viewpoints, and are more accepting of science and are more hands-on.
No matter how the researchers sliced the idea, female-led countries have fared better during the prevailing pandemic crisis.
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