Women’s leadership could enhance global recovery from COVID-19
Source: Prio Blogs
By Jacqui True,
As countries consider how to recover from COVID-19 without a vaccine, technologies for testing and contact tracing are seen as crucial to enable us to return to work and school. But the one ingredient often missing in the strategy to contain (or eliminate) Coronavirus is effective leadership. Where leadership is evident globally, it is often coming from women leaders. It also comes from leadership that is gender-balanced, in that it exhibits both traditionally feminine qualities of empathy and care and traditionally masculine qualities of decisiveness and use of rational science.
The COVID-19 crisis is exposing the fragility of all our systems, our complex dependence upon one another, and the provision of healthcare as the most basic of human rights. As a number of commentators have observed however, the countries with some of the most successful responses to COVID-19 and with a lower morality rate (~ 1 percent versus global ~5 percent), such as Germany, New Zealand and Norway, appear to have one thing common: women leaders.
Click here to read the full article published by Prio Blogs on 23 April 2020.
By Jacqui True,
As countries consider how to recover from COVID-19 without a vaccine, technologies for testing and contact tracing are seen as crucial to enable us to return to work and school. But the one ingredient often missing in the strategy to contain (or eliminate) Coronavirus is effective leadership. Where leadership is evident globally, it is often coming from women leaders. It also comes from leadership that is gender-balanced, in that it exhibits both traditionally feminine qualities of empathy and care and traditionally masculine qualities of decisiveness and use of rational science.
The COVID-19 crisis is exposing the fragility of all our systems, our complex dependence upon one another, and the provision of healthcare as the most basic of human rights. As a number of commentators have observed however, the countries with some of the most successful responses to COVID-19 and with a lower morality rate (~ 1 percent versus global ~5 percent), such as Germany, New Zealand and Norway, appear to have one thing common: women leaders.
Click here to read the full article published by Prio Blogs on 23 April 2020.