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The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Hall

Julia Gillard says progress on gender equality is ‘really glacial’

Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard was speaking at the Hay festival. Photograph: Labor Party

Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has said global progress on gender equality is “really glacial and slow” as she warned that it is going backwards among young people.

Gillard cited recent polling by King’s College London’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, which showed that 51% of respondents believe that men are doing too much to support gender equality, while 46% think that men are now discriminated against.

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