From boardrooms to the Bundestag, leadership duos are having a moment
“We systematically need more women,” said Ska Keller, who co-chairs the Green group in the European Parliament. “A leadership duo … has the effect that there’s always a woman at the top.”
“In a leadership duo, you generally have to reflect more and consult with someone else,” she said. “It’s good to have that feedback loop.” Dual leadership can also bring other types of balance to the leadership team, Noichl added — for example if the two party heads come from different generations, social backgrounds or wings.
The parliamentary group of the far-right Alternative for Germany , for example, is also led by a male-female duo. But the party — which wants a return to traditional gender roles — has by farDrude Dahlerup, a professor at Stockholm University who has studied gender quotas around the world, also said that a strong female presence in the party and equality-boosting measures are prerequisites for gender-balanced duos and other quotas to work.
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