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Kate Ellis was a federal MP in Australia (2004 to 2019). At 30 she was the youngest person to be appointed a federal minister. Kate left politics because she couldn‘t bear to be away from her eldest son when he started school. By then she also had a younger child. In this book she interviews current & former female politicians about their experiences. She acknowledges we have come a long way, but still have a long way to go.
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Women should ‘carry themselves with the confidence of a mediocre white man‘. 🤭😆
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Excellent. Read in one day. Highly recommend. Best op shop find for a while. Inscription shows it was given to Steve for his 65th birthday in May. I doubt he read it as I found it soon after. Might be difficult for some men to read and acknowledge.
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@MrsMalaprop would you like it?

An engaging, personally voiced memoir of life as a woman in Australian politics. I‘m sad to say that Ellis‘ description and analysis of the misogyny experienced by women in parliament in Australia didn‘t surprise me. I was disheartened to better understand how systemically and culturally entrenched these attitudes are in ‘the way politics is done‘. I think Ellis does a great job of showing how this is felt and experienced by a range of real women.

If I‘d read this a year or so ago, I would have been more shocked. Sadly, the sexism, misogyny (and worse) of the Australian parliament has been well and truly exposed. It‘s hard to believe this stuff is still happening in 2021. Rage inducing 😡

I couldn‘t finish it not because it wasn‘t good I‘m just not very interested in this topic. It is well written and informative though.