One of my friends said in exasperation the other day, “Wouldn’t the world be a better place if it were run exclusively by women!”
Errr, no.
There are indeed some great female leaders out there, in all fields, from business to politics, spiritual to medicine, academia, and of course motherhood. But would all-women have made a better job of the Covid crisis, Brexit, or state-sponsored aggression?
Errr, no.
There are some obvious female candidates for leader-sainthood, starting with our adorable Queen, the magnificent Maggie T, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Caroline Lucas MP, Dame Sharon White, Mother Theresa and many more.
But there are also some turkeys – either incompetent or dangerous. Here’s a selection, in no particular order:
· Dido Harding – TalkTalk followed by Test and Trace.
·
Angela Merkel – Chancellor of Germany and an unyielding,
myopic bully who has exacerbated the European economic divide
·
Meghan Markle – Where do I start?
·
Theresa May – Weak
·
Cressida Dick – Met Police Commissioner who
allowed XR to bring London to a standstill
·
Alison Saunders – Ex Director of Public
Prosecutions who hounded the innocent as much as the guilty
·
Paula Vennells – Ex Post Office CEO who ruined
the lives of hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters
·
Aung San Suu Kyi – Nobel Peace Prize laureate who
defended her Myanmar army’s apparent genocide against the mainly Muslim
Rohingya minority
· Carrie Lam – Hong Kong Chief Executive and China's puppet
The moral of the story is, there are some great, indifferent
and awful female leaders. There ae also some great, indifferent and awful male
leaders. Gender doesn’t come into it, so enough of the drive to equalise the
sexes for the sake of equalising the sexes regardless of real talent.
Appoint on merit.
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