Madeleine Albright: World run by women would be ‘like high school’

Madeleine Albright says a world with women in charge might be a lot like high school.

Appearing at The Atlantic’s Washington Ideas Forum at the Newseum on Thursday, the first female secretary of State — who was appointed by former President Clinton in 1997 — was asked by the magazine’s editor in chief, James Bennet, if the increase in the number of women holding government positions had caused a positive shift in policy.

“There are some who ask me if the world would be better off if it were run by women,” Albright said, continuing with a laugh, “And I say, ‘Do you remember high school?’ ”

But Albright quickly changed course, applauding the increase in X-chromosomes in Congress. The former diplomat, 75, also quipped that the line for the women’s restroom at the State Department had grown to include more people than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and herself.

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