What Do the Nations Best Dealing With Covid-19 All Have in Common? They're Led by Women

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What do New Zealand, Germany, Finland, and Taiwan all have in common? For one, they’re all places I’ve never been before. More importantly, they’re the nations that are leading the world in managing the global pandemic caused by covid-19. They’re the nations that have experienced the fewest deaths, even in comparison to similarly-sized countries. New Zealand is already preparing to lift its lockdown, while Taiwan didn’t even require a full national lockdown because of the speed and scope with which it addressed the virus. Oh, and also they’re all nations led by women. A fact that is very likely to have had a positive impact on how they’ve addressed the disease.\n

, women leaders have been better able to manage their response without being bogged down by the fatal belief that bullish masculinity will somehow save anyone. While Trump in the U.S.

Of course, while having a woman in a leadership position is more likely to signal and invite a diversity of perspective, which is likely to lead to better outcomes in the long run, it is not always a guarantee. According to, partisan politics in the United States led Republican governors, both male and female, to be slower in responding to covid-19.I’m not going to wax-poetic about what could have been, but with this information in mind, it’s hard not to be a little sad about what we almost had.

 

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There's some butthurt here I see LOL

*cough* (Belgium)

Austria's response was swifter and more successful than Germany's. Guess what, the chancellor is a man. Let us not fall in the trap of easy generalizations on gender, and systematically look at measures that were taken instead.

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