New Zealand’s Debates Show What Changes When Two Women Lead

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New Zealand’s most recent elections, which ended up with an electoral landslide by the incumbent prime minister Jacinda Ardern, had something to teach to electors in the U. S. about how having two women running for the highest office changes dynamics.

For Suze Wilson, a lecturer on leadership at Massey University, the fact that New Zealanders have seen women fighting for the top job before made it easier for Ardern and Collins to focus on content:

While having two women debating in New Zealand was a stark contrast with the U.S. electoral debate opposing President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden, some dynamics seen in the U.S. were also present in New Zealand’s electoral debate, to some extent: “Right from the first debate Collins, while not resorting to the childish name-calling and direct personal attacks that Trump uses, did seek to portray Ardern as ‘well-intentioned’ but largely ineffective and prone to what Collins derides as ‘nonsense’ by which she seems to mean naïve and not worldly-wise.”

While Ardern decided to go with her own style, she had to adapt when faced with a different strategy: “It was not until the third debate that Ardern really started to ‘fight fire with fire’, but even then the critique was focussed on policy, strategy or judgement, not personal attack," Wilson says.

 

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