head dominique strauss kahn christine legarde stepped into the breach for the past eight years she has steered the i.m.f. with a competent steady hand she's maintained a clear position including donald trump can it be that women only get to positions of power after men have found. some sort of i would you like to pick up on that question. it's interesting because there's no doubt that these women didn't necessarily come at a high time in their various countries situations and there's no doubt i mean it was interesting it was a harvard business review study that showed that countries with leaders that were women that were diverse actually did better economically one could say germany was one of those i mean there has been great economic growth under the at the time of merkel if you want to say it's because she was a woman leader or because of what purposes and that's obviously a matter of debate for for many people for her opponents and for her supporters but but yeah it does seem that you know that women have to take advantage of the opportunities as they get them the opportunities to

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