Feminists rejoiced when Julia Gillard became Australia's first female leader, but her failure to win national polls has raised questions about whether the country is ready to have a woman in charge.Australians delivered a hung parliament in August 21 polls, with neither centre-left Labor Prime Minister Gillard nor her conservative opponent Tony Abbott galvanising enough support to form a government. Leading feminist Eva Cox believes that while some voters have supported 48-year-old Gillard simply because she was a woman, others probably voted against her for the same reason.
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Feminists rejoiced when Julia Gillard became Australia's first female leader, but her failure to win national polls has raised questions about whether the country is ready to have a woman in charge.Australians delivered a hung parliament in August 21 polls, with neither centre-left Labor Prime Minister Gillard nor her conservative opponent Tony Abbott galvanising enough support to form a government. Leading feminist Eva Cox believes that while some voters have supported 48-year-old Gillard simply because she was a woman, others probably voted against her for the same reason.
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