Australia
She was the first woman Prime Minister of Australia.
Julia Gillard
This Australian political party currently has the highest proportion of women MPs.
Labor Party
A barrier women in politics often face relating to balancing this with work.
Family/childcare responsibilities
This young climate activist from Sweden inspired a global youth movement.
Greta Thunberg
The U.S. political movement that fought for women’s right to vote.
Suffrage Movement
Australia's friend, where Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister at age 37.
New Zealand
The Australian political party whose caucus reached ~50 % women under Gillard’s advocacy.
Labour
The basic definition of misogyny that was updated after Gillard’s speech: “dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against …”.
Women
Malala Yousafzai, though not a politician, influenced world leaders through her campaign for this right.
Girls' education.
The year American women gained the right to vote.
1920
This Australian state was the first to grant women the right to vote (1894).
South Australia
This Australian senator was known for wearing a burqa into Parliament to make a controversial point.
Pauline Hanson
The first woman elected to Australia’s federal parliament was Dame Enid Lyons in what decade?
1940s (1943)
This Prime Minister who gave birth while in office.
Jacinda Ardern?
She was the first woman ever elected Vice President of the United States.
Kamala Harris
The country that fell from 15th to 50th in the world for gender diversity in parliament, despite record number of female MPs.
Australia
The leader who opposed Gillard’s misogyny speech and was addressed in it.
Tony Abbott
The year Julia Gillard gave her famous “misogyny speech” in Australia’s Parliament.
2012
This country was the first to elect a female head of government (Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 1960).
Sri Lanka
Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State under which U.S. President?
Barack Obama
The phrase Julia Gillard said: “If he wants to know what misogyny looks like … he doesn’t need a motion … he needs a …”
A mirror
"I was Australia’s first female Governor-General.”
Quentin Bryce?
The early twentieth-century British Prime Minister, the first woman in such a role.
Margaret Thatcher
The first female Chancellor of Germany, who served for 16 years.
Angela Merkel
This U.S. Supreme Court Justice became a feminist icon known as “RBG.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg