{"id":14475,"date":"2018-04-20T07:29:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T07:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/?p=14475"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:54:57","slug":"join-conversation-women-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/join-conversation-women-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Join The Conversation: Women In Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, the first woman to have won office at an election, and former member of the Council of Women World Leaders, is well-known for saying on the day of submitting her nomination as New Zealand’s candidate for the 2016 UN Secretary-General selection, that she was running as the best possible candidate, and not necessarily because she is a woman. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a woman in leadership<\/a>, Clark calls for gender equality, but also for a significant emphasis on the fact that women are still being underrepresented in leadership on a global scale, which calls for something more than just having the same human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n