TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of leader gender on countries' performance
T2 - Evidence from four COVID-19 waves
AU - Freund, Amir
AU - Shomer, Yael
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 European Consortium for Political Research.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Does a leader's gender affect a country's performance during a health crisis, and through what mechanisms? This study finds a clear, substantial negative correlation between having a female leader in democracies and their COVID-19 infections and mortality rates, rejecting multiple spurious claims. The research is the first to analyse four pandemic waves covering 2 years while performing inter-wave analysis. The gendered performance gap continuously grew during the first three waves, moderated by vaccinations in the fourth wave. We found that trust and effectiveness mechanisms impacted the growth of the performance gap. As new variants of COVID-19 continue to spread and new threats related to the climate crisis are threatening globally, understanding the impact of gender in leadership roles, particularly during global crises, can provide valuable insights for policy makers and national leaders.
AB - Does a leader's gender affect a country's performance during a health crisis, and through what mechanisms? This study finds a clear, substantial negative correlation between having a female leader in democracies and their COVID-19 infections and mortality rates, rejecting multiple spurious claims. The research is the first to analyse four pandemic waves covering 2 years while performing inter-wave analysis. The gendered performance gap continuously grew during the first three waves, moderated by vaccinations in the fourth wave. We found that trust and effectiveness mechanisms impacted the growth of the performance gap. As new variants of COVID-19 continue to spread and new threats related to the climate crisis are threatening globally, understanding the impact of gender in leadership roles, particularly during global crises, can provide valuable insights for policy makers and national leaders.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12707
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12707
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0304-4130
JO - European Journal of Political Research
JF - European Journal of Political Research
ER -