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Julia Gillard, former Australian PM: The backsliding of gender equality

Julia Gillard, former Australian PM: The backsliding of gender equality

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Lucy Hockings speaks to Julia Gillard, Australia’s first woman PM, about gender equality

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“One of the things that was going to combat gender inequality in
our world was that sense of progress and then to see in the
research that actually the younger generation is more
conservative on these questions than people my age, that deeply
troubled me.”

Lucy Hockings speaks to Julia Gillard former Australian PM and
chair at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, King’s
College London about new research on equality.

Having worked her way to the top in the male dominated world of
Australian politics, Julia knows about sexism and misogyny. She
famously called it out in a speech against opposition leader Tony
Abbott in 2012 and has always been a proponent of equality for
women. But 14 years on and research from the organisation she now
leads finds that more and more young men want a traditional wife
that obeys her husband and that’s not too independent*. So what
has gone wrong?

Lucy and Julia unpick the research and analyse the factors behind
this backsliding, and they also discuss Julia’s time as
Australia’s first ever female head of government. The Interview
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Presenter: Lucy Hockings Producer: Clare Williamson Editor:
Justine Lang

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*31% of Gen Z men (born between 1997 and 2012) agree that a wife
should always obey her husband and one third (33%) say a husband
should have the final word on important decisions, according to a
new global study of 23,000 people in 29-countries conducted by
Ipsos UK and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at
King’s Business School, King’s College London.

(Image: Julia Gillard Credit: Vicki Couchman for King’s College
London)