https://www.theunshackled.net/australian-politics/gladys-berejiklian-another-female-leader-setup-to-fail/ Breaking the chains of control Thu, 12 Dec 2019 09:19:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.theunshackled.net/australian-politics/gladys-berejiklian-another-female-leader-setup-to-fail/#comment-129 Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:19:00 +0000 http://www.theunshackled.net/?p=2568#comment-129 Some good points. A few qualifiers to be made. Anna Bligh won an election in her own right (2009) after succeeding Peter Beattie in 2007. Julia Gillard achieved a draw in the 2010 election. Both Joan Kirner and Kristina Kenneally lost an election. So it is not fair to say that female leaders are ‘nearly always voted out at the next election’. Their track record isn’t overly different to men. You do raise a point about women often being brought in to pick up the pieces which I’d like to see developed further.

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