THE AGE OF JACINDA
THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST FEMALE LEADER WANTS TO MAKE NEW ZEALAND GREAT AGAIN
THE EXECUTIVE WING OF NEW ZEALAND’S parliament is nicknamed the Beehive, and there has been a new buzz about it since Oct. 26, when Jacinda Ardern, 37, became the world’s youngest female leader. On the shelves of her Cabinet room, a 19th century edition of William M. Thayer’s Women Who Win is proudly displayed. Ardern knows something about that. She tells TIME of her desire to “give [women] a sense of hope that there is a path, that you can find yourself in these wonderful situations.”
That Ardern’s path took her to
