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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1981/
- Published: 2019-06-18T18:30:13.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-07T22:00:27.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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> Just 11 countries out of almost 200 are led by a woman. Let that number sink in. That’s how hard it is for a woman to rise to lead a nation.

> Last October in New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern did it.

> She was already a political prodigy. In 2008, she was elected the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. Now she’s the youngest female Prime Minister in the world. At a time when conservative politicians are ascendant across Europe and the U.S., she’s proudly progressive—with a raft of plans to fight economic inequality, address climate change and decriminalize abortion. She wasn’t supposed to win: she entered the election late, and her party’s approval ratings were low. Then a wave of “Jacindamania” swept the land.

> And she’s expecting her first child this year.

> In a world that too often tells women to stay small, keep quiet—and that we can’t have both motherhood and a career—Jacinda Ardern proves how wrong and outdated those notions of womanhood are. She’s not just leading a country. She’s changing the game. And women and girls around the world will be the better for it.  
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> [Time](https://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217549/jacinda-ardern/?ref=goodoil.news)

  
You can [watch the Time magazine video of our face of the day here.](https://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217549/jacinda-ardern?ref=goodoil.news)