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The gender & covid series from @PoliticsGenderJ is 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ„" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">. A Saturdayhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ§”" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">on the pieces related to #COVID19, electoral politics & women in office. Are women leaders better at fighting covid? How does politicians& #39; gender matter for pandemic responses? Answers arehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="—ïž" title="Nach rechts zeigender Pfeil mit KrĂŒmmung nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Nach rechts zeigender Pfeil mit KrĂŒmmung nach unten"> 1/10
My article to start: it& #39;s not about women leaders, it& #39;s about where women get elected. Today, the "high capacity" Global North countries are more likely to elect women. And these countries have better coronavirus outcomes, whether led by women or men. 2/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/women-leaders-and-pandemic-performance-a-spurious-correlation/69FA5BD035CEE66F0FFFC61DF037DD0E">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...
Related, @AndreAldrich & @NickLotito look at 132 countries (!) and find no evidence that leader gender matters for the timing of stay at home orders, school closures, or public information campaigns. 3/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/pandemic-performance-women-leaders-in-the-covid19-crisis/579B3EA9BE0CD8215EE2E74257252FED">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...
And also Laine Shay finds the same when looking at U.S. governors: no affect of governor gender on the timing of stay-at-home orders. 4/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/closing-time-examining-the-impact-of-gender-and-executive-branch-policymakers-on-the-timing-of-stayathome-orders/5C65C252F63FBBF1B949B20A3BD1C109">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...
So why the attraction of this media narrative when not empirically true? As I wrote, "Ardern and Merkel confound gendered expectations about womenâs fragility, acting with level-headedness while Bolsonaro and Trump bluster futilely." In fact, the next contribution.... 5/10
... from @BlairWilliams26 & Carol Johnson points out that #covid19 changes the gendered traits that voters value in their chief executives, decreasing the value of hypermasculinity and raising the value of empathy. 6/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/gender-and-political-leadership-in-a-time-of-covid/AA1F587847633222555949D9BD0FB5BC">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...
And having women leaders matters in other ways. @kendallfunk12& #39;s contribution analyzing Black women mayors in the U.S. underscores their greater likelihood to enact measures that protect vulnerable communities, like increased social spending. 7/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/local-responses-to-a-global-pandemic-women-mayors-lead-the-way/28311D9DC2651D9B843A1318DFD2009B">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...
But the media hype over women leaders obscures that women politicians are *still* marginalized from govts& #39; #covid19 responses. @Jess_Smith1534 focuses on how women politicians are missing from #UK& #39;s daily #covid19 press briefings. 8/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/where-are-the-women-descriptive-representation-and-covid19-in-uk-daily-press-briefings/6E8ADB4812BBD519746ABB050A1A9CF2">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...
Moreover, @MaluGatto & @Debora_Thome_ point out that #covid19 will make Brazilian women& #39;s access to campaign funds harder, so campaigns become an uphill battle. 9/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/resilient-aspirants-womens-candidacies-and-election-in-times-of-covid19/C7B9CC197A85B428EFA62FD4C940597C">https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...
En fin: #covid19 poses opportunities *but also* dangers for women leaders. Somehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="âïž" title="MittelgroĂer Stern" aria-label="Emoji: MittelgroĂer Stern">rise, but research by @reyeshousholder @MelaneeLThomas & @therunningprof shows that women also punished harder in crises. The backlash may be even greater than the hype. 10/10
