Julia Gillard Quotes

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

The result of coeducation shows clearly that there is no mental inferiority on the part of girls.

I always had more women working for me than men.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.