Countries with female leaders, they discovered, have had lower death rates than countries with male leaders.
This might seem like a stark, even stereotyped, distinction between male and female leadership styles, and there are surely grey areas, but recent events in New Zealand politics also cause us to reflect on such differences. To put it simply, it is hard to imagine female politicians resigning or being dismissed for the kinds of actions that ended the careers of National MP Andrew Falloon and Labour Cabinet Minister Iain Lees-Galloway.
When former National MP Jami-Lee Ross went rogue in 2018, he claimed that half of Parliament were engaged in inappropriate relationships. He should know as he was involved in two of them.
The inference is that a code of silence was long maintained among politicians, staffers and journalists to keep the grubbier side of political life out of the public eye. On the day that Lees-Galloway’s affair was made public, pundits with long memories recalled former male prime ministers whose extramarital liaisons were open secrets.
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