{"id":17530,"date":"2020-04-25T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/25\/why-do-female-leaders-seem-to-be-more-successful-at-managing-the-coronavirus-crisis"},"modified":"2020-04-25T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T04:00:35","slug":"why-do-female-leaders-seem-to-be-more-successful-at-managing-the-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17530","title":{"rendered":"Why do female leaders seem to be more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of countries with male leaders have also done well. But few with female leaders have done badly<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On 1 April, the prime minister of Sint Maarten addressed her nation\u2019s 41,500 people. Coronavirus cases were rising, and Silveria Jacobs knew the small island country, which welcomes 500,000 tourists a year, was at great risk: it had two ICU beds.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs did not want to impose a strict lockdown, but she did want physical distancing observed. So she spelled it out: \u201cSimply. Stop. Moving,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have the bread you like in your house, eat crackers. Eat cereal. Eat oats. Eat \u2026 sardines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/25\/why-do-female-leaders-seem-to-be-more-successful-at-managing-the-coronavirus-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of countries with male leaders have also done well. But few with female leaders have done badlyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn 1 April, the prime minister of Sint Maarten addressed her nation\u2019s 41,500 people. Coron&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[711,1069,635,848,646,533,1368,268,56,1165,4,222,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angela-merkel","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-denmark","category-finland","category-gender","category-germany","category-iceland","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-norway","category-politics","category-south-korea","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17548,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530\/revisions\/17548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}