The leaders were asked the same set of questions to test Gillard’s hypothesis about the experience of women in senior roles. Gillard, who was subject to horrific examples of sexism while serving as Australia’s first female prime minister from 2010 to 2013, is best known internationally for her “misogyny speech” to parliament. She told the Guardian forum that the case for more women in leadership positions was not about whether women were better leaders, and did not imply that somehow women led differently. Gillard pointed out that around the world, more nations had never had a female political leader than had had one, and only two had had three female leaders – New Zealand and Iceland. Nowhere in the world was it routine to have women leaders.

Source: The Guardian July 10, 2020 01:52 UTC