Jacinda Ardern burst onto the global scene in 2017 when she became the world's youngest female head of government at the age of 37.
on the map in her five years as prime minister, becoming a global icon for left-leaning politics and women in leadership, even as she struggled at home with the economy and COVID-19 restrictions.
Her leadership was marked by unprecedented events for the island nation of 5 million: the 2019 massacre of 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch by a white supremacist and the eruption of the White Island volcano, and, the next year, the pandemic. Launching a global campaign to end online hate, she has often herself been a target of right-wing extremists online.
But not everyone was happy with her “go hard, go early” approach, which included a nationwide lockdown over a single infection. Despite her promises of transformational leadership, Ardern’s affordable housing programs have been set back by blunders. Even on climate change, which Ardern called “my generation’s nuclear-free moment,” progress has been incremental.Ardern burst onto the global scene in 2017 when she became the world’s youngest female head of government at the age of 37.
Hours after being appointed Labour Party leader, she was asked whether she planned to have children. Ardern said it was “totally unacceptable in 2017 to say that women should have to answer that question in the workplace.”
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