Good evening Australia.
It's the day after the election and the results are still rolling in from across the country.
In Australia the Liberal Party had recently stated that it is considering to double the proportion of its female Members of Parliament.
Australia is continuing to make significant progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action across all government jurisdictions. Five key achievements in progressing gender equality in
recent years are explored in this section:
Australia is continuing to make significant progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action across all government jurisdictions. Five key achievements in progressing gender equality in
recent years are explored in this section:
Chief Minister Katy Gallagher says Australia has gone backwards on female participation at the highest levels of politics and decried the perception that leadership is a man’s game.
New research has found negative media coverage of former PM, Julia Gillard, is discouraging women from pursuing their political aspirations.
Ms Gillard said while it is up to the nation to think in a sophisticated way about that, the gender revolution of the last 50 years had failed to leave as deep an impact as hoped.
Admitting that her own experience in politics was "mixed", Ms Gillard said she hoped more women would enter politics.
Julia Gillard has given her first known interview since losing the Labor leadership, in which she says she will be pursuing education and women's issues on the global stage.
The latest round of national head-scratching about why there aren't more women in politics makes me want to poke out my own eyes with a rusty toasting fork.