Many countries led by incompetent, science-denialist men have led to catastrophic coronavirus outbreaks. A disproportionately large number of leaders who acted early and decisively were women. My @CNN op-ed: cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
In Taiwan, early intervention measures have controlled the coronavirus pandemic so successfully that it is now exporting millions of face masks to help the European Union and others.
In New Zealand, the prime minister took early action to shut down tourism and impose a month-long lockdown on the entire country, limiting coronavirus casualties to just nine deaths.
All three places received accolades for their impressive handling of the coronavirus pandemic. They are scattered across the globe: one is in the heart of Europe, one is in Asia and the other is in the South Pacific.
But they have one thing in common: they're all led by women.
But they have one thing in common: they're all led by women.
These countries -- all multi-party democracies with high levels of public trust in their governments -- have contained the pandemic through early, scientific intervention. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
The US State Department cites Taiwan's coronavirus success in calling for Taiwan to be given observer status in the WHO's World Health Assembly. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
Germany, with 83 million citizens, has had over 132,000 infections but very low deaths per million -- far lower than most other European countries. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
"In the face of the greatest threat to human health we have seen in over a century, Kiwis have quietly and collectively implemented a nationwide wall of defense." - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
Four of the five Nordic countries are led by women. Their countries each have lower death rates from coronavirus compared to the rest of Europe. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs of Sint Maarten governs a tiny Caribbean island of just 41,000, but her no-nonsense video telling citizens to "simply stop moving" for two weeks has gone viral around the world.
Of course, South Korea's (male) President Moon Jae-in has deservedly received praise for flattening the curve of infections in his country through widespread testing. But many countries led by incompetent, science-denialist men have led to catastrophic coronavirus outbreaks.
The epicenter of the pandemic is now the United States, where President Trump initially accused the Democratic party of politicizing the virus as a "hoax" and failed to heed multiple warnings from top scientists for months. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson dismissed the severity of the public health crisis and refused to introduce restrictions on social gatherings long after other European countries went on lockdown. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
And the coronavirus would not have spread throughout the world as swiftly if Chinese President Xi Jinping had not allowed five million people to leave Wuhan before it went on lockdown. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
The success of women-led governments in dealing with a global pandemic is all the more noteworthy, given that women make up less than 7% of world leaders. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
The world is in dire need of more women leaders and equal representation of women at all levels of politics. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
The disproportionate number of women leaders succeeding in controlling this pandemic should show us that gender equality is critical to public health and international security. cnn.com/2020/04/14/asi…
