Former President Barack Obama believes that the world would be much better off by and large if women were in leadership positions, he said at a recent private event, the BBC reported.
Speaking before an audience in Singapore, Obama shared some thoughts on political polarization, the use of social media to spread falsehoods, and about the future of leadership.
He said that he had often wondered what a world run by women would be like when he was in office.
"Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but I can say pretty indisputably is that you're better than us [men]."
"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," he said, adding that he believed in stepping aside at the right time after being asked if he would ever go back into politics.
"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," he 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," he said.
h/t: BBC
