With women now holding the three most powerful political positions in our nation- the President, the Prime Minister, and the Leader of the opposition- we have an opportunity to address our country’s most urgent crisis: crime.

This moment is historic not only because of who these women are but because of what they represent and the fact that they have supported our country for most of their lives.

Women bring a different lens to leadership; one that is often grounded in community, care, and long-term thinking. These qualities are essential if we are to truly tackle the roots of crime, not just its symptoms.

Consider this: every criminal has a mother. Many have sisters. Most have partners or daughters. Women are not on the sidelines of crime; they are deeply embedded in its ecosystem, whether as silent sufferers, weary enablers, or powerful potential disruptors.

Women, especially those in positions of power, can play a transformative role in pulling our young men back from the brink. Women have effectively used community-building, early intervention, mentoring, and reshaping the values we teach in homes and schools as tools to hold their corners of society together.

We now have an opportunity to formalize and scale these roles through policy and leadership. We also need to change the tone of our national conversation. Parliament sets the emotional climate of the country, but I think it has left the organizational and intellectual aspects to starve.

For too long, that space has echoed with hostility, arrogance, and blame, rather than clearheadedness and rational thinking. If women can lead with calm strength, empathy, and vision, we just might reset the national tone and make respect, rather than rage, our new normal.

This leadership moment isn’t just symbolic. Two of these women are in their 60s; they’ve seen the transformation of our society from a place of possibility to one gripped by fear and violence. That lived experience must be harnessed to fuel their resolve to steer us back.

Crime will not be solved by more guns or longer sentences alone. It will be solved when families, communities, and leaders-especially women-stand together to rebuild what we’ve lost: trust, opportunity, and hope.