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Leading the Fight against the Pandemic: Does Gender really matter?

There have been regular news stories about how female leaders have done a better job at responding to the Covid-19. Is this really true, or just a media narrative based on a tiny sample? Supriya Garikipati of Liverpool University and Uma Kambhampati at Reading Tell Tim Phillips about how gender-based differences in leadership style may have saved lives and helped economies reopen earlier.