Former NZ PM appointed as UN Development Plan administrator

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As mentioned here. But I think this cartoon summarises things nicely:



Kind of reminiscent of Obama "cleaning up" after Bush. (And I wonder if Time deliberately chose that article title, because I've seen it less-charitably observed by some that things haven't changed that much in the White House from early times, with black men cleaning up the messes left by others).

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Back when I was studying Organisational Behaviour, the text book mentioned the peculiar habit of putting women in positions of power only after things had been royally fucked up by men for years. The author implied that this was a sexist strategy to maintain the status quo... that is, letting women get into positions they've never held before, but only when its setting them up for spectacular failures. Its something that Australia is particularly guilty of, apparently.

I think its an interesting idea, and one that I've had brought to my mind more than once in recent times, with some of the leadership choices that the university has made recently.

I hope that in this case, she does awesome work.