Articles & media
The tricky gender issue facing Gillard
28 July, 2010
Eva Cox, “The Trickey Gender Issues Facing Gillard”, Crickey.com
“I have just listened to Julia Gillard’s media conference on the leaks. It adds another dimension to Bernard Keane’s excellent analysis of the media campaign against Gillard, the woman. She was putting herself up as the tough, no-nonsense pragmatist who clearly assessed every policy proposal on its affordability.
This approach therefore made a virtue of her questioning the costs versus benefits of the pension…”
Cox: why gender could be a standalone factor in the election
26 July, 2010
Eva Cox, “Why Gender could be a standalone factor in the election”, Crickey.com
“The leaders’ debate last night was very polite as each tried to exhibit their best manners as worms tend to punish rudeness or aggression. It was therefore not in any way interesting in either content or style. There was a strange set of nuances at the beginning of Tony Abbott’s speech when he talked about marriage, parenting and his familiarity…”
Eva Cox: vote 1, trust, seems to be the order of the day
19 July, 2010…
“The election campaign is on. And the first to be led by a female PM!
This is the type of change we once naively hoped would signal more attention to better social outcomes, rather than the economic ones. We thought women were more likely to put social issues on the agenda, but it doesn’t necessarily work that way. The good society, or at least a somewhat better one, needs level of trust for sharing resources for the common good…”
Eva Cox: a woman PM — is it a step forward?
“We will know we really have made progress when women in top positions become normal and not worthy of comment. It will also mean we get better leaders but not just because many are women, writes Eva Cox…”
Kathleen Swinbourne from the Women’s Electoral Lobby speaks about nation’s first female Prime Minister
24 June, 2010
Listen to the interview on ABC local radio online.
Eva Cox talks to ABC Gippsland about Australia’s First Female PM
24 June, 2010
“The appointment of Australia’s first female Prime Minister has been welcomed by the Women’s Electoral Lobby, however the group fears the knives may already be out for Julia Gillard…”
Eva Cox from the Women’s Electoral Lobby Talks to the SMH about Gillard’s ascension to power
24 June, 2010
Eva Cox talks to Richard Jinman and Ellie Harvey at the SMH about Julia Gillard and the difficulties faced by female leaders.
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