VIDEOS: Women leading through the COVID-19 crisis
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A week after telling her country that she expected 70 percent of the country could contract the virus, German Chancellor Angela Merkel went on television to share a message to her citizens. She explained the science that led to the government decisions and she took an empathetic message.
Prime Minister Ardern spoke to her constituents on Facebook video in late March about how people would need to follow social distancing guidelines.
Sweden’s prime minister kept the country open and today has 28 deaths pers 100,000 people, while its neighbors led by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who closed her borders and enforced social distancing starting on March 14, and Norwegian Prime Minister have 9 and 4 deaths per 100,000 people respectively.
Frederiksen spoke to her constituents via Facebook video and shared this video to ease anxiety, singing along at home while she made dinner.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen shared her video message on Twitter describing how the country is supporting other countries in battling the COVID-19 crisis. Taiwan successfully stopped the virus from spreading despite its proximity to where the coronavirus began, and today has just 439 cases reported and 6 deaths.
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen, is using her position to advocate for unity. Norway’s donation was part of an international pledging marathon that hopes to raise more than $8 billion.
In early April, she took to Twitter to call for European countries to support African nations in taking on the coronavirus.
Like other leaders, in a rare speech directly to the public, The Queen of England, showed relational leadership. Actress, Phoebe Waller-Bridge appearing on the Stephen Colbert Show recently said the Queen’s speech moved her.
“Whatever people think about the Queen or the royal family or their place in the world… there was a real moment of gravitas when she spoke to us that we all sort of needed and unity. She ended it with the most epic sentence. ‘We will see our friends again, we will see our family again, we will meet again.’ It was so badass. It was beautiful, it was very very moving.”