The former prime minister of Australia has recently taken on another girls’ education role. She says the battle for equality fuels her work“whether you believe,as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the genders then whether you witness at any institution, or like a parliament,and you dont see roughly half men and half women then, clearly, or you don’t occupy the people of the greatest merit there.”Gender parity in global leadership is Julia Gillard’s ultimate aim. And the former Australian prime minister,now a figurehead in education, is clear that the way to achieve this is enabling girls and women to go to school. Gillard believes there’s momentum like never before on the issue.
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Source: theguardian.com