Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017-2023) · New Zealand · Politicians · Born 1980 · age 46
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Something wrong?She became prime minister of New Zealand at 37, gave birth in office, steered the country through the Christchurch mosque shootings and a pandemic lockdown that kept the virus at bay when few other Western nations could - then walked away in 2023 saying she didn't have enough left in the tank.
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Ardern, with Phil Goff and Carol Beaumont, at an anti-mining march on 1 May 2010
Ardern campaigning at the University of Auckland in September 2017
Ardern with then Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy at the swearing-in of the Cabinet on 26 October 2017
Ardern with Green Party co-leader James Shaw at Victoria University of Wellington, 12 April 2018
Ardern with US President Donald Trump, 23 September 2019In their own words 10
, I think it's actually more a question of personality than strictly gender, what type of leader you want to be and how sensitive you are to the feedback of voters.
I believe, therefore, that empathetic leadership is the domain of women. We don't just say, I'll only teach my daughter kindness, generosity, and curiosity.
Being out of the spotlight is something I'm quite delighted by.
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Born in Hamilton and raised in Morrinsville and Murupara, Ardern joined Labour at 17, worked for Helen Clark and later in Tony Blair's Cabinet Office, and entered Parliament in 2008. She was unanimously elected deputy leader in March 2017, then leader five months later after Andrew Little's resignation tanked Labour's polling - and immediately flipped the numbers, gaining 14 seats that September and forming a minority coalition government with New Zealand First. She gave birth to her daughter on 21 June 2018, the second elected head of government to do so in office. After the March 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings she moved fast on gun laws, then led a COVID response that earned praise for containment and a landslide majority in 2020, the first since 1996. Declining popularity over the economy, housing, and pandemic handling led her to announce her resignation in January 2023, citing an empty tank.
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