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Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation
The connection between women leaders and superior pandemic performance is likely spurious. This narrative overlooks that women currently govern precisely the kinds of countries that should mount effective pandemic responses: wealthy democracies with high state capacity. This article maps where women...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562782/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000525 |
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description | The connection between women leaders and superior pandemic performance is likely spurious. This narrative overlooks that women currently govern precisely the kinds of countries that should mount effective pandemic responses: wealthy democracies with high state capacity. This article maps where women currently serve as presidents and prime ministers. The article then uses data from the Varieties of Democracy Project and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to show that many women-led countries score high on state capacity and that high-capacity states have low coronavirus mortality regardless of whether they are led by women or by men. Arguments emphasizing women chief executives’ superior pandemic performance, while offered in good faith, are misleading. |
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spelling | pubmed-75627822020-10-16 Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation Piscopo, Jennifer M. Politics & Gender Research Article The connection between women leaders and superior pandemic performance is likely spurious. This narrative overlooks that women currently govern precisely the kinds of countries that should mount effective pandemic responses: wealthy democracies with high state capacity. This article maps where women currently serve as presidents and prime ministers. The article then uses data from the Varieties of Democracy Project and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to show that many women-led countries score high on state capacity and that high-capacity states have low coronavirus mortality regardless of whether they are led by women or by men. Arguments emphasizing women chief executives’ superior pandemic performance, while offered in good faith, are misleading. Cambridge University Press 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7562782/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000525 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Piscopo, Jennifer M. Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation |
title | Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation |
title_full | Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation |
title_fullStr | Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation |
title_full_unstemmed | Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation |
title_short | Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation |
title_sort | women leaders and pandemic performance: a spurious correlation |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562782/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000525 |
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