Female leaders
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Despite widely held opinions to the contrary, there is growing evidence that female leaders are more likely to start and continue wars than male leaders.
Medieveal Europe
A major study on European monarchs
- http://odube.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Queens_Oct2015.pdf
- http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/queens-on-attack
- http://mentalfloss.com/article/74643/europes-queens-were-more-likely-go-war-its-kings
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w23337.pdf
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7667033/Queens-gone-war-kings-centuries-historic-study-finds.html
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4454964/Female-rulers-27-likely-wage-WAR-males.html
- https://qz.com/967895/throughout-history-women-rulers-were-more-likely-to-wage-war-than-men/
- https://qz.com/1115269/would-the-world-be-more-peaceful-if-there-were-more-women-leaders/
Modern female leaders: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050629.2019.1683008
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09636412.2020.1763450
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/8k6lpq/women_as_a_voting_group_are_far_more/
Authors of the book Why Leaders Fight analyzed every world leader from 1875 to 2004 and statistically examined gender differences in military aggression. They found that 36% of the female leaders initiated at least one militarized dispute, while only 30% of male leaders did the same. [1]