Women in public life, inequality and Australian influence in British politics with Julia Gillard

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4.1 • 102 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode of 'UKICE (I Tell)' - formerly known as 'Brexit and Beyond' - Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London talks to Professor Anand Menon about the role of women in public life, tackling inequality and 'Australia-style' politics in the UK. --- Julia Gillard is the only woman to have served as Prime Minister of Australia, a position she held from 2010 to 2013. Julia was central to the successful management of Australia’s economy, the 12th biggest in the world, during the global financial crisis, and delivered nation-changing policies including reforming Australian education at every level and establishing the nation’s first ever national scheme to care for people with disabilities. In October 2012, Julia received worldwide attention for her speech in parliament on the treatment of women in professional and public life. In April 2018, Julia was appointed Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to this next episode of the Eukis Itel podcast. I'm absolutely chuffed to have with us, that's a technical term.
0:15.7	Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, the only woman to have held that position, which you held, I think, 2010 to 2013.
0:22.9	That's right.
0:24.2	Subsequent to which she got a promotion and came to King's College, where from 2018, she has
0:29.6	been the chair of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership.
0:33.2	Juliet, welcome.
0:34.4	Thank you.
0:34.9	Great to be with you.
0:35.8	Actually, I shouldn't say welcome because we're both at King.
0:38.9	Yes. Hello.
0:39.8	How are you doing?
0:42.7	There's an awful lot to get through.
0:46.8	I mean, just starting with some research that the Global Institute put out recently,
0:49.6	and for our listeners, you should check out their website, which is really, really good.
1:00.5	But there was some rather scary data you released recently saying that people in the UK are increasingly wary about advocating for women's rights and standing up for gender equality.
1:01.7	Can you just talk us through that?
1:08.9	Yeah, every international women's day we do some global polling research with Ipsos, the global polling company.
1:13.0	And, you know, sometimes there are really good things in it that show that progress is being made. But there are also some signs that there's fatigue
1:17.8	with the gender equality debate, that some people are feeling more anxious about raising it.
1:23.8	And it is counterintuitive on age cohorts.
1:27.9	So often we find in the research that younger people are more reticent,
1:32.3	indeed more conservative than older age cohorts,
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