New Zealand: It's reigning men, media portrayal and betrayal of 2 women PMs
Source: Broad Agenda
By Blair Williams,
During her nine years as New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clark was held in high regard for her skill and courage as a politician and advocate for nuclear disarmament and public health policy. She wasn’t the country’s first female PM – Jenny Shipley, who she defeated in1999, took that honour – but her gender didn’t define her time in office.
Across the ditch and two years after Clark resigned, Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female PM – and her gender did define the torrid three years she spent in office. Why two women from such culturally and politically similar democracies should experience such polar opposite responses says a lot about the make-up of media ownership, as Blair Williams explains.
Click here to read the full article published by Broad Agenda on 30 March 2020.
By Blair Williams,
During her nine years as New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clark was held in high regard for her skill and courage as a politician and advocate for nuclear disarmament and public health policy. She wasn’t the country’s first female PM – Jenny Shipley, who she defeated in1999, took that honour – but her gender didn’t define her time in office.
Across the ditch and two years after Clark resigned, Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female PM – and her gender did define the torrid three years she spent in office. Why two women from such culturally and politically similar democracies should experience such polar opposite responses says a lot about the make-up of media ownership, as Blair Williams explains.
Click here to read the full article published by Broad Agenda on 30 March 2020.
