“Governments with higher women’s representation in parliaments adopted a higher number of gender-sensitive policy measures in response to the pandemic.”

— UN Development Programme (UNDP) + UN Women, COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker, 2023

“Governments with higher women’s representation in parliaments adopted a higher number of gender-sensitive policy measures in response to the pandemic.”

— UN Development Programme (UNDP) + UN Women, COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker, 2023

Women leaders are particularly skilled in crisis management and communication, [are] collaborative in their decision making, and careful to implement inclusive policies that addressed the pandemic’s social impacts…One of the reigning factors of women’s leadership is the emphasis on collective responsibility and solidarity.

—UN Working Paper, COVID-19 and women’s leadership: From an effective response to building back better, 2020

Loss of female workers under the Taliban has already cost the economy $1bn.

—The Guardian, 2022

When more women are elected to office, policymaking about the quality of life and priorities of families, women, and ethnic and racial minorities increases.

—Why Women in Politics? Women Deliver, 2018

In addition, sector-specific research has found that women’s participation in politics affects the range of policy issues that arise and the types of solutions that are proposed in decision-making processes.

—Why Women in Politics? Women Deliver, 2018

One study based in Germany found that teams that included women performed better on highly complex tasks compared to all-male teams, in part because the range of different thinking patterns available increased team creativity overall.

—Team Composition Variables and Team Performance: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

Research has found that when a government mirrors the population it serves, local, state, and national entities better represent the population in decision-making processes.

—Representative Bureaucracy: Assessing the Evidence on Active Representation

Women are excluded from political processes, to the detriment of society.

—Fadzayi Mahere, Zimbabwe high court advocate + spokesperson for Citizens’ Coalition for Change

Local governments with a female leader adopted 29.2 per cent more community energy policies than communities with male leaders.

— Binghamton University and State University of New York Study

Women are agents of change in their families, communities and countries. Increasing the voice and participation of women in politics is essential for advancing issues of importance to women on national agendas, with benefits for both women and men

— Investing in women and girls, OECD

“The mountain of evidence keeps growing. Women leaders outperform. Especially during a crisis.”

—Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes Contributor

Nations with greater female representation in positions of power have smaller climate footprints

—Christiana Figueres + Tom Rivett-Carnac, The Future We Choose

In a recent pew poll of perceived leadership qualities—women scored higher than men on 9 out of ten political leadership qualities—and 9 out of 12 business leadership qualities.

—PEW Research Survey (2018)

Countries with higher proportions of women in their national legislative bodies are more likely to approve environmental agreements.

— Gender Equality State Environmentalism

There's a strong, negative and statistically significant relationship between the proportion of women in a country’s legislature and the level of corruption.

—World Bank

When women are well represented in governing bodies, the overall quality of governance tends to rise + levels of corruption tend to sink.

— UN

Womxn tend to be better at team work + working with those different from themselves.

— Quorum

In an analysis of 125+ Countries—corruption is lower in Countries where more womxn are parlimentarians.

— Science Daily

In a U of Michigan Study on the effects of stress on decision making—in men + womxn—womxn tended to make more advantageous decisions.

— University of Michigan