00:00You know, when I look back at my school days, you know, there were things like they got girls to
00:06study laundry and sewing and cooking while the boys did electronics and woodwork and metalwork, so there was a bit
00:12of that.
00:13But really they were teaching us to aim high and then I got to go to university and that message
00:17was reinforced.
00:19And in my early days in politics even, I wouldn't have said that it was that different for me because
00:23I was a woman.
00:24But once I got to the ultimate leadership position as Prime Minister, the first woman to serve, it clearly, you
00:32know, was a very gendered environment.
00:34If anything, it got more gendered over time as we continued to govern, people inevitably critical of some things that
00:41government does, the gendered insult became the go-to political weapon.
00:45And so I watched all of that and I hadn't wanted to foreground gender.
00:51I thought it was so obvious I was the first woman to do the job.
00:54I didn't need to wander around saying it every day.
00:56But as I saw more and more of the backlash, then I did want to give it a shove and
01:01shine a light on it and try and get a better debate happening about how we truly include women in
01:08leadership positions.
01:09I thought it was so obvious.
