Barack Obama said that women are ‘indisputably better’ leaders than men, and this is not the first time he mentioned it.
The former president expressed: “Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re better than us [men].
“I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything … living standards and outcomes.”
Obama’s remarks came during his appearance at the Singapore Expo. The 58-year-old has been in Asia for Obama Foundation events while his wife, Michelle Obama, visited schools in Vietnam with actress Julia Roberts and Today co-host Jenna Bush Hager to promote young women’s education.
When the former president was asked if he would consider going back into politics, he talked about the importance of knowing when to step back.
“If you look at the world and look at the problems it’s usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way,” Obama said. “It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self importance or your own power.”
Obama also said last week that there were “still so many places where young women don’t have opportunity and their own parents don’t think they should get an education.”
He added: “It turns out one of the best indicators of whether a country’s developed or not is: How does it educate its girls and how does it treat its women?”
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