Gillard Shows Cleaning Government Isn’t Just for Men
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Julia Gillard saw herself as equal to men years before becoming the first woman to lead Australia. As a teenager she forced her high school to abandon the practice of putting more girls than boys at work cleaning the school and demanded the job be shared equitably.
“It was biased toward the boys, she saw the principal about it and it was later changed to be more equal,” her father, John Gillard, recalled in a telephone interview.