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POLITICS & GENDER
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 943-950Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X2000029X
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COVID-19; political leadership; gender; media; politics of emotion; coronavirus; masculinity; femininity; Donald Trump; Jacinda Ardern
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The COVID-19 pandemic has undermined the division between the private sphere of the home and the public sphere of politics that has traditionally disadvantaged women political leaders. Whereas male political leaders historically drew on their traditional role as the male head of household to display forms of masculine protectionism toward citizens, women leaders are now able to draw on their traditional motherly role-for example, as the member of the household who traditionally cares for the sick-to display forms of feminine protectionism. As a result, international women leaders have managed to leverage women's role in the home to their advantage in the political sphere. Significantly, an appreciation of traditionally feminine attributes in women political leaders has been displayed in much media coverage, providing more favorable coverage of female political leaders than was previously the case.
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