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Marla Ahlgrimm explains that many countries with women in the equivalent of our presidential seat have handled the virus with a drastically different style. In Germany, for example, Chancellor Angela Merkel took to the airways early on. She is noted for remaining calm when telling her country there was a dangerous and highly-contagious virus on its way. Germany enjoys a low per-capita infection rate.
In Taiwan, Pres. Tsai Ing-wen also got a jump on the virus, implementing spread-reduction measures – 104 of them to be exact – as early as January. Her country has been cited by CNN as having one of the world’s best responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Marla Ahlgrimm says that Ing-wen recently sent more than 10 million masks to countries in Europe and to the United States. As of late May, there had only been seven COVID-19 related deaths in her entire country compared to nearly 91,000 in the United States.
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According to Marla Ahlgrimm, these female leaders represent strength, courage, and decisiveness. That’s not to say that men leaders in other countries have not done a good job, just that these women are excellent examples of how to break gender stereotypes and thrive in traditionally male-held roles.