Source: The Local
Merkel joins other women scoring highly in the Development Academy’s list with five appearing in the top ten (or making up 50 percent), despite only 19 countries out of 193 (9.8 percent) having a female head of state or female government.“There are some fantastic – and not so fantastic – examples of public speakers from this research,” said Ben Richardson, Director at Development Academy.”It’s fascinating that although there are only around 10 percent of women in leadership roles worldwide, female leaders make up 50 percent of the top communicators.”