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Mary Beard & Julia Gillard on the 10-year anniversary of the misogyny speech

A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard

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Jane Garvey's Rants About Equal Pay

The speech was travelling overseas and overseas media were writing it up incredibly differently. It's not a rant, but part of the misogyny that you're contesting is the way that your interventions are described. I do think there's the sexist critique about how we see anger in men and women. No one likes anybody who is unfairly angry or really head up angry. But I think in politics, there's plenty of space given to the powerful angry man who is seen to be righteously angry in a just cause. Whereas we haven't created that space yet for women. And so she said what really impacted her was it was the first time that she'd seen a woman sitting comfortably in her anger

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