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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is calling for the first woman to lead the United Nations, urging the international body to elect a female secretary general after nearly 80 years of male leadership. Women make up 50% of every country, Baerbock said at the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, “but in 80 years, this organization has never had a female secretary general.” “So if this organization calls for equality and justice in the world, it is long overdue for us to show it here in New York,” she added. “The next secretary general of this organization has to be a woman,” Baer…

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