Obama's Two-Year Thought Experiment: What If Women Ran the World?

Barack Obama has floated a provocative idea: hand every government on the planet over to women for two years, then check the results.

The former U.S. president shared the thought while talking about the need to give younger generations and fresh voices more room to lead. He admitted it's something he used to wonder about even while he was in office — what it might look like if women took the reins of every country at once, just to see how things played out.

He was careful to say this wouldn't magically fix everything. But he's convinced the outcome would still be an improvement over what we have now not utopia, just noticeably better.

It's less a policy proposal than a thought experiment about representation and leadership one that keeps resurfacing whenever conversations turn to who gets a seat at the table, and why.