Biologically women have more resistance power, they are more flexible and they evaluate problems in a different way. They solve problems by uncovering every reason or hint at what would and would not solve the problem. They tend to look at a problem from every angle while speculating what might work. In the year 2001, Harvard researchers found that certain parts of the brain were differently sized in males and females. The study found that parts of the frontal lobe, responsible for problem-solving and decision-making, and the limbic cortex responsible for regulating emotions, were larger in women. That’s why may be women tend to make everything personal and leading with her emotions in a quest to see how she would feel about each possible solution.
Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand could practically eradicate Covid 19 by end of March 2020. She gives the credit to the spirit and efforts of her citizens. Germany, led by Angela Merkel, has lowest death rates than other Euro Nations. Sanna Martin, the young Prime Minister all of 34, of Finland governs with a coalition of four female-led parties, has had fewer than 10 percent as many deaths as compared to Sweden. And, Tsai Ing-wen, the President of Taiwan, has presided over one of the most successful efforts in the world at containing the virus, using testing, contact tracing and isolation measures to control infections without a full national lockdown. Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland has successfully brought down the death rate by Covid-19 in Iceland. In Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg is using technology to the fullest use to track isolated patients. The patients don’t feel lonely. The current Prime Minister of Denmark is Mette Frederiksen closed her country’s borders on 13 March. A few days later she closed kindergartens, schools and universities and banned gatherings of more than 10 people. This decisiveness appears to have spared Denmark the worst of the pandemic: its death toll stands at less than 250, and the number of patients being treated in hospital for Covid-19 is falling drastically.
Women are right-brain oriented and therefore faster at grasping computational and verbal data and they are also intuitive. They are more flexible and find it easier to multitask. Men are usually left-brain oriented. That often makes them better at solving abstract equations and problems.
There are stupid stereotypes that often create difficulties for women in politics. People feel that leaders should be aggressive dominating. But if women demonstrate those traits, then they are seen as unfeminine and abnormal. This eccentricity does not allow women to stay in politics.
But, Jacinda Ardern’s approach to fighting the pandemic was altogether different than the traditional archetype. But on this new kind of crisis, her cautious leadership has proved successful. She took decision of shutting down the economy quite early which was a risk-averse strategy. Nobody then knew what was going to happen, but, she took a chance as she gave priority to life first. Her cautious leadership has proved successful.
After New Zealand began its lockdown March 25, Ardern addressed the nation via a casual Facebook Live session she conducted on her phone session after putting her toddler to bed. She played her mother’s role first. Dressed in a cosy-looking sweatshirt, she empathized with citizens’ anxieties and offered apologies to anyone who was troubled or alarmed by the emergency alert that announced the lockdown order; she approached the topic with empathy.
So many researchers have concluded that women tend to have more of a desire to build than a desire to win. Women are more willing to explore negotiate and to solicit other people’s opinions. By contrast, men often think if they ask other people for advice, they’ll be perceived as unsure or as a leader who doesn’t have answers; they therefore tend to avoid advice coming from anybody. They empower others; they encourage openness and are empathetic to their co-workers.
Male leaders can beat gendered expectations, of being dashing and aggressive, and many have. But these women did what it takes to protect their nation very politely, with compassion because at heart their priority was welfare of their nations. It takes lot of caution may be women can be ridiculed for being so, and it may be politically costly for women to do so because they do not have to violate perceived gender norms to adopt cautious, defensive policies.
Women Heads of states can underplay their roles when demanded. Women as head of states are becoming increasingly precious. As the world has become more and more vulnerable to climate change, natural disasters, wars, water shortage, gender bias, education, and malnutrition and economically weaker sections increasing we can only wish that more and more women come forward and take charge of more and more nations in world as empathetic leadership is need of the hour.
