Like many, I spent the better part of US election week last month with one eye on CNN, gripped by unfolding events in the US. putting my political leanings aside, my attention was largely focussed on whether America would vote in its first female Vice President. America, it seems, is ready to embrace female leadership. Joe Biden was helped, and not hindered, by the presence of Kamala Harris. Meanwhile Kiwis are enjoying the fruits of Jacinda Ardern’s deft handling of the Covid-19 crisis and her landslide victory in New Zealand’s recent elections show a country utterly, and enviably, united. How…

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