";s:4:"text";s:4382:" And I wish, you know, I could say to women, “Just let yourself feel it, and don’t worry about the rest,” but that wouldn’t be intellectually honest, because politics is a competitive business, you know? Julia Gillard has an estimated net worth of $2 million. And so the evidence that we looked at when we were writing the book shows that a female leader, to succeed, has to manage a balance between strength and empathy. So, I actually don’t think we would have got it through the parliament at that point.You did say at the time, though, that you found yourself on the conservative side in that question, and you pointed to...to your own family upbringing. I’ve always been animated by the belief that men and women are equal and that, if there are barriers that are holding women back, then they should be cleared out of the way. You run...You caution them to be careful about being open about their ambition.Oh, well... And I do…do that for good reason. Am I the perfect feminist? I might stand on someone’s toes, but I always get the job done.” For the man, that was a winning line.
The primary school completion rate in the GPE countries has moved from 56 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2014 — so that’s a big improvement, but not enough.Julia Gillard, Board Chair of the Global Partnership for Education and former Prime Minister of Australia joins us to talk about getting more of the world's children in school.We want to build on those past successes with this new replenishment.
I didn’t even know what TikTok was. She earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Melbourne in 1984.Like many celebrities and famous people, Julia keeps her personal and love life private. That’s all we’ve got time for tonight. But at this time, we can actually all say, “We’re doing things to save lives.” And you most certainly are.Marie, I’m interested to know, this second time round for you, is it that lack of human contact, the...the physical separation from the people you know and love?Yes, because the grandchildren, they’re the only ones...the only other humans that I’ve touched in this time, and that touch is really important. Now, as history records, obviously, mine was ultimately viewed as an eccentric position – maybe one left over from my late-1970s and early-1980s feminism where, if you’d said to many women in that era, you know, “What you’re aiming for is to get married,” whether they were straight or gay, they would have looked at you with horror like, “What on Earth are you talking about?
Did you actually think, “That could...that could happen”?Oh, yeah. I think we all underestimated how it was going to cycle up, and so none of us came in early enough.OK. Undoubtedly.
We believed in politeness and thrift and fortitude, and doing duty and discipline.
The least compatible signs with Libra are generally considered to be Cancer and Capricorn. Setting the question of gender aside, do you think that you would have gotten a fairer go as prime minister if you had reached that position in a more conventional way?I... Well, I mean, I reached that position in a way that’s certainly been done before in Australian politics – Paul Keating against Bob Hawke, to take one example.
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