Are Female Leaders More Successful at Managing the Coronavirus Crisis?

April 5, 2020

Reporting after the pandemic began, the Guardian article by Jon Henley and Eleanor Ainge Roy highlights the immediate actions taken by seven womxn leaders around March 2020.

Many of these such reports at the time cautioned against attributing the positive and out-performing results to the gender of the leader. 

But this article foreshadowed the statistical evidence that followed, proving that their ongoing performance through the pandemic stages eventually saved more of their citizens’ lives.

We love their portrait of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who with her doctorate in quantum chemistry, launched a scientifically based information campaign, but was also praised for her “direct but uncharacteristically personal public interventions…lamenting every death as that of “a father or grandfather, a mother or grandmother, a partner.”

Merkel’s clear, “calm expositions – a clip of her explaining the scientific basis behind the government’s lockdown exit strategy was shared thousands of times online – and also helped propel her public approval of the handling of the crisis above 70%.

Read all of the profiles here testifying to the power of womxn’s compassionate and concise leadership.