Our world has been male dominated since time immemorial. In this male dominated world people have become habitual to men leaders and they often hesitate in being lead by a woman, because women are portrayed as the weaker gender who didn’t possess sufficiennt qualities that are needed for being a leader.
Even with limited opportunities and encountering difficulties like gender stereotypes, bias, absence due to motherhood they outshine men in every sphere of life.
Women in comparison to men are much more efficient at handling tough and unprecedented situations and this pandemic has proved that enough. In this global pandemic countries with male leaders like Greece, Czech Republic, Australia have done well but countries with female leaders have done extremely well and have responded in a much better way than those with male leaders .
It may be argued that female leaders have walked into the current crisis with a few plus points over countries with men leaders but the handling of crisis by Germany led by Angela Merkel has proved that also wrong. Germany with 83 Million citizens has had over 1,84,00 infections but very low deaths per million far lower than most other European countries. Germany has achieved far lower death rate than Britain, France, Italy or Spain because of its approach of large scale testing programme. It has recorded highest testing programme in Europe conducting 3,50,000 tests each week detecting the virus early enough to isolate and treat patients effectively.
Its neighbouring country Denmark also responded equally well, the Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen closed the borders of the country on 13th March followed by closing educational institutions and prohibiting gathering of more than 10 people limiting its cases to 12001 with less than six hundred virus related deaths.
Four of the five Nordic countries are led by women. Countries like Finland, Iceland and Norway also performed outstandingly well during the crisis by taking early actions and adapting smart methods for eradication of the virus.
Expect Sweden the only Nordic country not led by a woman – where Prime Minister Stefan Löfven refused to impose a lockdown which resulted into a far higher death rate in of most other European countries.
Finland where Sanna Marin governs recorded less than 10% as many deaths as nearby Sweden.
Iceland Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir early and aggressive intervention helped the country in its battle with the virus.
Taiwan President TsaI.Ing Wen early intervention helped the country in limiting the outbreak . Its aggressive testing, tracing and isolation measures are applauded all over the world.
New Zealand an island country of five million which heavily relies on tourism has been declared as one of the first COVID-19 free countries in the world imposed a nationwide lockdown on 23rd March much before that its international boundaries were sealed and 14 days quarantine was already imposed on anyone entering the country. With widespread testing and effective approaches the country has eradicated the virus and is the among the firsts in going back to normal.
When the leaders of worst affected countries USA, Brazil, Britain and India were busy in making their citizens believe that the light will never fade out and they will defeat the virus with the very few restrictions adopted by them at that time these female leaders understood the severity of the situation and employed effective measures and approaches to not only curb the spread of virus but also eradicate it from their countries.
The distinguished approaches of these women leaders helped them in minimizing death rates in their countries .
Women hold only 7% of the world’s government leadership roles. Yet they have proved themselves . If there would have been more female leaders the scenario would have been much better. In spite of limited opportunities they performed so well if they are provided with equal opportunities in the near future they will definitely make the world a better place to live in.
In the midst of pandemic when the entire world is battling against a virus comparing the performance of countries would be incorrect as all countries are very different from each other because of their geographical boundaries and population but highlighting the approaches adopted by countries with better performance isn’t wrong at all.
Eduindex News 