Author Topic: Are Women Better at Leading Diverse Countries Than Men?  (Read 444 times)

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Offline Granny

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1. Sorry they both had good points.  It's impossible to isolate variables here, and there is too small a sample of women.  We are left to agree on things that *seem* to be obvious and true such as...

2. ... this thing.  Also as was pointed out, only Western countries elect women.  It's actually true what TimG says: "i.e. countries with a culture that make it possible for women to fill these top posts are going to do better. "  This is a vote in favour of diversity from TimG btw.
This study is admittedly an initial look at the data on M vs F led countries. Many variables remain to be clarified, hypotheses generated and tested on datasets, etc. And yes,
A disproportionate amount of female national leader-year periods are in developed, as compared to less developed, nations
And Of the 1,338 total national leaders in this fifty-five year period, less than 5 percent (sixty-one leaders) were women
And the major finding - increases in average GDP in Female led countries - was found to apply particularly to ethnically diverse countries where there is ethnic fractionalization.
Full paper from the Journal of International Affairs  here:
https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/ethnic-diversity-gender-national-leaders
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3. I don't think it's valid to assume women have a different bio-cultural makeup that makes them 'better' leaders.  If you allow that kind of assumption, in principle, it takes you to weird places like... British people can't cook and Italians can't fix cars etc.
Let's just stick to Male Female differences in country leadership, as that's complex enough for now.
I don't agree that we shouldn't study it because it could 'take us to weird places'. (Some cross-cultural leadership studies have been done and the sky didn't fall.) I think leadership gender is legitimate inquiry in attempts to elucidate factors that contribute to a country's success, especially in relation to success with ethnic diversity and associated ethnic fractionalization which affects many countries today.
 These preliminary findings of positive female leadership effects on GDP suggest that further research to clarify leadership qualities or practices  contributing to those results might be useful.

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