Women and Leadership: Real lives, real lessons
Vintage, $34.99 pb, 326 pp
Women and Leadership: Real lives, real lessons by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
No Australian feminist is likely to forget the moment when Germaine Greer appeared on Q&A and declared that our first female prime minister should wear different jackets to hide her ‘big arse’. Greer, of course, has blotted her copybook many times before and since, but if we needed proof that a woman leader could not catch a break in this country, here was Australia’s most celebrated feminist joining in the new national pastime of hurling sexist invective at the prime minister.
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