The fact I’m the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.

Jacinda Ardern

You can’t ask other people to believe you and vote for you if you don’t back yourself.

Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern Biography in Detail

These are the words of Jacinda Ardern, the greatest, and youngest Prime Minister of New Zealand. She is New Zealand’s third female prime minister. From Biography of Jacinda Ardren, you will know how she rose from an ordinary family to a great Prime Minister of a great country.

Full Name- Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern
Date of Birth-  26 July 1980
Birth place-  Hamilton, New Zealand
Family- Husband and One Daughter
Husband- Clarke Timothy Gayford
Child Name-   Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford
Date of Birth of Daughter-  21 June 2018

Her husband, Clark Timothy Gayford, is a radio and television broadcaster.

Jacinda Ardern’s father’s name is Ross Ardern and mother’s name is Laurell Ardern. Ross Ardern was a police officer and her mother worked as a catering assistant in a school.

Her aunt had been active in politics for a long time as a member of the Labour Party, and with her help Ardern got a chance to enter politics when during the re-election campaign in the 1999 general election, she included Ardarn in the campaign of Plymouth MP Harry Duynhoven and from here her political journey also started.

Ardern soon became a member of the Labour Party when she was young and soon became a senior figure in the Young Labor Sector.

After graduating from university, she worked as a researcher in the offices of Phil Goff and Helen Clark.

For some time, she also worked in a soup shop in New York City. Ardern then moved to London and worked as a senior adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s 80-person policy unit, although she never met Tony Blair.

In early 2008, Ardern was elected as president of the International Union of Socialist Youth.

After this, Ardern did not look back, and continued to move forward.

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Ardern was ranked 20th on the Labour Party list before the 2008 general election. For those who were not already MPs, the 20th rank was a very great place. And because of this, she was assured of a seat in Parliament.

She was then made a candidate for Labour for Wacato’s safe national campaign. But Ardern could not do well in getting the vote, and failed. But still her high position in the Labour Party gave him a chance to enter Parliament. And with this, she also became the youngest MP in Parliament.

After this, she kept getting opportunities to move forward in politics. Opposition leader Phil Goff promoted her by nominating her as a spokesman for the Youth Bench and an associate of Justice (Youth Affairs).

Ardern then contested the 2011 general election from the seat of Auckland Central for Labour. Unfortunately, she lost the election by 717 votes. But still she returned to Parliament due to a good place in the party’s list, in which she got 13th place.

After her defeat in the 2011 election, Goff resigned from the party’s leadership. Ardern then backed David Shearer over David Coonliffe. And on December 19, 2011, Shadow reached fourth place in the cabinet.

After this, on the strength of her hard work and dedication, Ardern’s stature continued to grow in the Parliament of New Zealand. Media houses also gave him a lot of positive publicity, even a veteran international news channel like CNN gave him very good coverage. Due to which the party got a very positive result and the party also received a lot of donations.

She took office as leader of the opposition and the youngest leader of the Labour Party, 7 weeks before the general elections on 1 August 2017. She became the second leader of the party after Helen Clark.

On 19 October 2017, New Zealand leader Winston Peters agreed to an alliance with the Labour Party, and Ardern was elected the next Prime Minister. In this way, on the strength of hard work and indomitable courage, Ardern became the youngest and first woman Prime Minister of a great and developed country like New Zealand.

Her popularity was such that after Ardern came to power, the Labour Party came to power for 9 years. And donors also donated fiercely to the Labour Party.

Jecinda had to face defeat almost three times in the elections.

Even after rejecting the post of chief about seven times, she managed to become the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Jecinda lost the election in 2008, yet she managed to reach parliament. This is possible due to the list candidate (Mixed Member Proposal (MMP) system under the parliamentary system in New Zealand.

According to Jecinda, establishing himself as a politician was not her goal.

From the very beginning, Jecinda was a very combative type of girl and she also fought many battles for human rights.

At the age of 8, Jecinda joined a human rights organization.

In college, she struggled a lot for the freedom of girls to wear trousers.

On March 15, 2019, a gunman attacked two mosques in Christ Church and killed 51 people, which Ardren strongly condemned, and immediately took action, she decided to further tighten New Zealand’s gun laws.

As a result, they banned military-style semi-automatic firearms weapons just 6 days after this attack. and more than 62000 semi-automatic firearms weapons were removed from circulation under the purchase withdrawal scheme.

On December 9, 2019, 21 people were killed during an explosion in Whakari/White Island. Responding immediately, she visited Whakatene and met the respondents. And assured all possible assistance to the victims.

Jacinda made a lot of headlines all over the world by arriving with her few-month-old daughter at the 2018 United Nations Assembly meeting. She probably became the first woman in the world to attend a meeting of the United Nations Assembly with her daughter.

In her last five and a half years, Jacinda has also done very important work for the well-being of children and families.

As Prime Minister, Jacinda introduced family packages, child poverty alleviation laws, free lunch healthy meals in schools.

Her policies have lifted nearly 66,500 children out of poverty so far. Throughout her tenure, Jacinda did a lot of work for the welfare of the people.

Jacinda also did a lot of commendable work in tackling climate change. In 2019, her government should strive to create a pure climate by passing the Landmark Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill.

For zero carbon emissions, Jacinda has done a lot of work such as banning new non-oil and oil emissions, phasing out single-use plastic, making businesses, schools and hospitals commit to the use of clean energy. 

In 2018, Jacinda was the first Prime Minister of New Zealand to attend the Gay Pride Parade in New Zealand.

Jacinda also struggled to end gender pay inequality. With the passage of the Equal Pay Amendment Bill in July 2020, it fulfilled Labour’s campaign promise by making it easier for employees to claim wage equity.

Jacinda Ardern is the second Prime Minister of the world after Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who became pregnant while on post.

The people there were very impressed with her work during the Covid 19 epidemic and in a survey it was found that Ardern was New Zealand’s most popular leader in the last 100 years. And about 92% of the people supported the work done by them.

This great woman has announced her resignation from her post on 7 February 2023. Chris Hipkins will be the new Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Note: This blog has been generated by our expert research team of Wellbrid.