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Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s new book is a rare insight into life as a leader and a powerful call to arms for women everywhere
If asked to think of women in political positions of power, plenty of names might come to mind—Jacinda Ardern, Christine Lagarde, Angela Merkel, and Michelle Bachelet, for example. Our global political stage includes far more women than just mere decades ago, yet the shocking truth remains that they still make up only ten percent of national leaders worldwide.
So why aren’t there more women in leadership roles? In Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons, Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala strive to tackle this question, among others. As one might expect, the answer has nothing to do with aptitude or interest but rather with gender bias and unequal access to opportunity.
“When I became prime minister of Australia, I assumed that at the start, there would be a strong reaction to me being the first woman, but it would abide over time and then I would be treated the same as every other Prime Minister had been,” Gillard said in a recent TED Talk. “I was so wrong. That didn’t happen. The longer I governed, the more visible the sexism became… The problem is we still all have sexist stereotypes whirring in the ba
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Boston Marathon Bombings; Nigeria Grim to Alien in Corruption
Aired April 16, 2013 - 15:00 ET
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was confirmed as director-general of the World Trade Organisation on Monday.Shattering a glass ceiling; she is the first female African leader of this organisation in its’ 25 years of operation to come this far in the competition.
Afronews reported that Twice Nigeria’s finance minister and its first woman foreign minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been described as a trailblazer. Now the 66-year-old has made history by becoming the first African and woman as the head the World Trade Organisation.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed by the WTO after the last remaining rival candidate, South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee, withdrew from the race. We wrote about it HERE.
It was the country’s trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee, who chose to step down from the post of director general, after months of uncertainty over who would head the worldwide organisation.
She will take up her post on March 1, initially for a term that runs until August 2025. An economist and former finance minister of Nigeria, Okonjo-Iweala enjoyed broad support from WTO members including the European Union, China, Japan and Australia. The United States, under the Trump administration, had favoured Yoo.
“It feels exciting and it feels daunting at the same t