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Ruby Tandoh; Julia Gillard; gender politics of driving

30/09/2014

Julia Gillard; Ruby Tandoh; gender politics of driving

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Julia Gillard; Ruby Tandoh; gender politics of driving

Julia Gillard on her three years and three days as Australia's first female prime minister

Julia Gillard on her three years and three days as Australia's first female prime minister. Plus Ruby Tandoh, and the gender politics of driving. Presented by Jane Garvey.

On the 24 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked, the then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, she became Australia's 27th prime minister, and their first female leader. Three years and three days later she too was ousted. Julia joins Jane to talk about the pressures of leading a nation, the now infamous anti-misogyny speech directed at her opposition leader, Tony Abbott, and her motivation in publicly dissecting such a turbulent period in her political life. Ruby Tandoh, former contestant in the 2013 Great British Bake Off, talks about baking and banana bread; Woman's Hour has been to a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference on 'what women want' looking at the key issues facing older women, especially those struggling with caring responsibilities. Indigenous women in Canada make up 4.3% of the country's women but account for 16% of female homicides and 11% of missing women. Loretta Saunders who came from an Inuit family was found two weeks after she disappeared in February this year, murdered and dumped in a ditch. Now more than 300,000 people have signed a petition calling for a public inquiry into why indigenous women are so much more likely to be killed or go missing. Jane speaks to Holy Jarrett who started the petition and is Loretta Saunder's cousin. Who takes the wheel in your relationship? And does literally being in the driving seat reveal something more profound about who's in control? Official statistics show that men are still more likely to be the main driver of a household car. But why?

Presenter: Jane Garvey.

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