Get to know Franziska Giffey, a politician from Germany’s Social Democratic Party that has secured a win against Angela Merkel’s ruling party.

Sharing a snippet from the meeting on her Instagram handle, Merkel said that the topic of the meeting was togetherness of the generations. Her caption read, “Citizens’ dialogue on cooperation between generations.

The 40-year-old politician describes her childhood as a mixture of water cannon at protests, and cake at home later – a mix of cosy middle-class radicalism. According to a report by BBC News, her parents used to take her on anti-nuclear demos in her childhood.

Bodo Ramelow said that he should have used the term for male politicians instead, ” Instead I spoke about a woman. That was dumb and appeared disrespectful”

“I think I am not exaggerating when I say: never in the last 15 years have we found the old year so heavy and never have we, despite all the worries and some skepticism, looked forward to the new one with so much hope,” Merkel said in her speech.

In a time of global crisis as this, when entire countries are starved for hope, love, and stability, isn’t empathy and informed action the only way to go? 

Women have been at the forefront of the pandemic, antithesis to the notion of global crisis, and the ‘few good men’ that avert them. 70% of the world’s health care staff is women.

Women have always been multitaskers with a temperament of a surgeon when dealing with a sticky situation, and it is now that the world has sat up and taken notice of our superpower.

“Those who sit at supermarket cash registers or restock shelves are doing one of the hardest jobs there is right now.”

2019’s Forbes list has seen several inspiring women but Angela Merkel continues to occupy the number one spot. This is her ninth year topping the list.