Metropol Editor Melinda Collins

Editor’s Perspective: On the change of gender roles

The tides of gender roles have been changing recently Perhaps best illustrated by an off-hand comment by Pippa Wetzell’s seven-year-old. “Mum, can a boy be Prime Minister?” he asked her soon after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had given birth to her first child, Neve. And, although Pippa’s reply “Absolutely, boys can do anything girls can […]