“If there are female leaders, there is less violence.” The prime minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas.

A Woman’s Place Is in the Kremlin

Estonia’s prime minister considers how different Europe would be if more women were in power

By George Grylls

From her office in the medieval center of Tallinn, about 130 miles from the Russian border, Kaja Kallas considers whether the invasion of Ukraine might never have happened if a woman was in charge of the Kremlin.

The Estonian prime minister is one of a new generation of female leaders in the region, along with her counterparts in Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.