As two of the youngest heads of presidency and amongst a small proportion of feminine global leaders, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin have lengthy confronted questions on their age and gender.
But they have been fast to shoot down a journalist who requested in regards to the goal of the first-ever talk over with to New Zealand by means of a Finnish top minister on Wednesday.
“A lot of people will be wondering are you two meeting just because you’re similar in age and, you know, got a lot of common stuff there,” the journalist stated all through a joint information convention in Auckland.
Ardern, 42, was once fast to bring to a halt the questioner.
“I wonder whether or not anyone ever asked Barack Obama and John Key if they met because they were of similar age,” she stated, in connection with the previous top ministers of the United States and New Zealand.
“We, of course, have a higher proportion of men in politics, it’s reality. Because two women meet it’s not simply because of their gender.”
Marin, 37, who’s in New Zealand with a Finnish business delegation, emphasised the rustic’s rising business ties.
“We are meeting because we are prime ministers,” she stated in reaction.
She ends her talk over with to the southern hemisphere in Australia later this week.
