--- title: Why the Next Leader of the U.N. Should Be a Woman description: Why the next leader of the UN should be a woman, how to build a better Monday, why cities should make peace with their suburbs and more. canonical: https://time.com/3845161/united-nations-leader-woman/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-04T16:01:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:12.046Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why the Next Leader of the U.N. Should Be a Woman og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3845161/united-nations-leader-woman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why the Next Leader of the U.N. Should Be a Woman twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why the Next Leader of the U.N. Should Be a Woman by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 4, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 4, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**After 70 years of men in charge, the next leader of the U.N. should be a woman.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-woman-should-lead-the-un/2015/04/26/8519c652-e9fa-11e4-9a6a-c1ab95a0600b%5Fstory.html) By Gillian Sorensen and Jean Krasno in the Washington Post **2\.** [**Here’s how to design a better Monday.**](http://www.studio360.org/story/making-mondays-joyful-bring-joy/) By Studio 360 and IDEO **3\.** [**What brought some cities back from the economic brink? Making peace with their suburbs.**](http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-economy/big-questions/a-truce-in-the-war-between-cities-and-their-suburbs-20150429) By Nancy Cook in the National Journal **4\.** [**There’s an app to document and salvage Nepal’s cultural heritage.**](http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/05/nepal-cultural-heritage-earthquake-150501041832085.html) By Annette Ekin at Al Jazeera **5\.** [**Elon Musk just made growing weed easier.**](http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/how-the-tesla-battery-will-benefit-marijuana-growers-1701582831) By Wes Siler in Gizmodo  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3845161/united-nations-leader-woman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3845161/united-nations-leader-woman/"},"headline":"Why the Next Leader of the U.N. Should Be a Woman","datePublished":"2015-05-04T16:01:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:12.046Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3845161/united-nations-leader-woman/","keywords":["Innovation","Pot","gender","United Nations","Nepal","Weed","cities","Earthquake","Tesla","development","Design","Suburbs"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3845161/united-nations-leader-woman/","name":"Why the Next Leader of the U.N. Should Be a Woman"}}]}] ```