Former President Barack Obama said there would be 'significant improvement across the board' if countries were led by women, at a leadership event in Singapore.
said there would be "significant improvement across the board" if countries were led by women, and that "old men" needed to get"out of the way."
"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]," the 44th President said, ."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.
"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 continued, according to the BBC.
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