What New Zealand Can Teach The World About Women In Leadership With Former Prime Minister Helen Clark At WD 2026
Helen Clark shares the lessons and challenges that the world can learn from New Zealand when it comes to empowering women in politics and leadership.
New Zealand has long been a pioneer in women’s representation in leadership, becoming the first country in the world where women fought for and gained the right to vote in 1893.
Since then, it has had three women prime ministers and achieved a gender equal parliament under prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s cabinet in 2022.
Speaking to Almost at the Women Deliver 2026 conference in Melbourne, Australia, the country’s second woman prime minister Helen Clark shares the lessons and challenges that the world can learn from New Zealand when it comes to empowering women in politics and leadership.
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