Women political leaders in pandemic times: comparing Jacinda Ardern’ and Donald Trump’s representation of the COVID-19 crisis

Saccà, Flaminia; Selva, Donatella

doi:10.19181/nko.2021.27.2.1

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“…Effective risk communication was enforced via a variety of features: transparency and the consistent communication of policy initiatives; clear and concise official communication; a government website designed to help individuals, communities, and businesses navigate the intricacies of Covid-19-related policies; as well as excellent science communicators who supported the government in communicating best practices for tackling Covid-19 (Jamieson, 2020). Top scientific experts were not only present in formal press briefings, but also in Ardern's conversations (Saccà & Selva, 2021) on social media, carried out in a colloquial tone, to facilitate understanding by the public.…”

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“…(Ardern, 2020) Through her communication, Ardern carries out a unifying campaign that galvanizes the collective will to suspend the citizenry's day-to-day life temporarily in support of lockdown measures (Jamieson, 2020). Widely recognized for her compassionate leadership (Simpson et al, 2021), Jacinda Ardern's communication enables her followers' resources and alleviates their distress during the meta-crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic (Saccà & Selva, 2021). Her daily briefings focused on open, honest, and straightforward communication, distinctive and motivational language, and expressions of care, including her characteristic appeals to kindness (Beattie & Priestley, 2021).…”

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“…Her daily briefings focused on open, honest, and straightforward communication, distinctive and motivational language, and expressions of care, including her characteristic appeals to kindness (Beattie & Priestley, 2021). Her empathetic style of communicating does not equal a soft approach to policy, but rather one that firmly walks the audience through each step of the governmental plan (Saccà & Selva, 2021). Jacinda Ardern's skillful use of social media during the Covid-19 crisis led her to be crowned "the Facebook prime minister" by news media (Kapitan, 2020).…”

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Reframing Leadership: Jacinda Ardern’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Stoica

2023

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Women’s underrepresentation in political leadership has been a constant global challenge during recent decades. Although women’s leadership and its impact on organizational and country performance have been systematically explored, new research avenues are opened through the emergence of various crises. Crises constitute instances in which the intersection of leadership and communication is shaped and enforced, and how female leaders tackled and managed crises has been found to be different from that of their male counterparts in various instances. This study aims to examine the crisis communication approach taken by Jacinda Ardern during the 2020 global public health crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Female leaders were found to enforce a more effective and persuasive communication approach during the crisis, but Jacinda Ardern’s crisis management approach has been grounded in a feminist ethics of care since her response to the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019. This article aims to emphasize the importance of communication in reframing leadership, by analyzing Jacinda Ardern’s Facebook communication from the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. By examining how her messaging is embedded in values and attitudes specific to the ethics of care, we contribute to theorizing ways in which crisis communication is grounded in feminist ethics.

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“…The approach of female leaders to people and experts was also very important in their skills. The ability of female leaders to listen to professional advice and the requirements of specific populations has affected the success of virus-eradication efforts [29]. An important point can be made that this form of transformational leadership is a process where a person connects with other people who then create relationships to develop morality and motivation through increasing interest, observing individual needs and emotions or feelings of members to develop and grow themselves to achieve goals and exceed their interests.…”

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Transformation of Women’s Leadership Styles in Post-Pandemic Crisis Recovery

Wulandari¹,

Nurhaeni²,

Suharto³

2022

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICoSaPS 2022)

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As we enter 2020, all countries in the world are being hit by a health threat crisis caused by the coronavirus. The virus has a major impact on various sectors of life. Therefore, responsive and fast leadership is needed to overcome the crisis that occurs. From the point of view of feminism and female leaders, in this case, female leaders are considered to be better and faster in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. This essay aims to analyze how the transformation of women's leadership styles in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 recovery. PRISMA's systematic literature review method was used in this study to produce relevant articles. By filtering based on key words, year of publication, and type of document, we found 20 relevant articles and used them for further analysis. The results show that female leaders tend to be transformational in handling all social aspects in the public sector and act at the forefront of reducing the risk of COVID-19. Other literature shows that countries with female leaders tend to value fewer things, work with agility, and show a reduced risk of death. In conclusion, after the COVID-19 pandemic, female leaders use a more feminine transformational leadership style because they are able to exert influence, especially during times of crisis, and because their character can be trusted more quickly in post-pandemic crisis conditions.

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Effective management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: gender aspects

Shchyhelska¹,

Potikha²,

Chop³

2021

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The article attempts to clarify gender differences in management styles and their impact on the management effectiveness in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Due to all uncertainty concerning the pandemic period duration, the scale of the consequences, and possible new threats that could lead to crisis situations, this issue is of great scientific interest, as leaders who are able to ensure effective crisis management are of particular importance nowadays. A comparison of coronavirus statistics based on four women-led states and four men-led states with about the same population upon 18 months after the pandemic start shows that morbidity and mortality rates are generally lower in countries with women leaders. Moreover, while the introduction of lockdown and other emergency measures to curb the virus spread may lead to a slowdown in economic development and GDP declines, it can be seen that women-led governments have managed to avoid a predicted decline in GDP. Some countries have even shown positive economic growth during the pandemic. The results of our study showed the high effectiveness of women leaders in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. Based on the analysis of management activity results during the pandemic as well as scientific research on gender differences in management styles, we have identified the following gender features that stipulate the effectiveness of crisis management: women's ability to carry out more active and coherent political measures in the context of emergency well combined with the ability to avoid health and safety risks; ability to consider expert advice and the needs of the population; the manifestation of greater social concern by increased funding of health care, social protection and education; ability to clearly, decisively and empathically communicate with different age and social groups. In addition, women are less prone to corruption and bribery, they tend to team- management and forward-thinking. In our opinion, the high potential of women to apply transformational and androgynous leadership styles, which proved to be the most effective in the pandemic, have played a crucial role in the effectiveness of management during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Women political leaders in pandemic times: comparing Jacinda Ardern’ and Donald Trump’s representation of the COVID-19 crisis

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Reframing Leadership: Jacinda Ardern’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Reframing Leadership: Jacinda Ardern’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Transformation of Women’s Leadership Styles in Post-Pandemic Crisis Recovery

Effective management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: gender aspects

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