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鈥淥ne of the things that was going to combat gender inequality in our world was that sense of progress and then to see in the research that actually the younger generation is more conservative on these questions than people my age, that deeply troubled me.鈥�

Lucy Hockings speaks to Julia Gillard former Australian PM and chair at the Global Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership, King鈥檚 College London about new research on equality.

Having worked her way to the top in the male dominated world of Australian politics, Julia knows about sexism and misogyny. She famously called it out in a speech against opposition leader Tony Abbott in 2012 and has always been a proponent of equality for women. But 14 years on and research from the organisation she now leads finds that more and more young men want a traditional wife that obeys her husband and that鈥檚 not too independent*. So what has gone wrong?

Lucy and Julia unpick the research and analyse the factors behind this backsliding, and they also discuss Julia鈥檚 time as Australia鈥檚 first ever female head of government.

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Presenter: Lucy Hockings
Producer: Clare Williamson
Editor: Justine Lang

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*31% of Gen Z men (born between 1997 and 2012) agree that a wife should always obey her husband and one third (33%) say a husband should have the final word on important decisions, according to a new global study of 23,000 people in 29-countries conducted by Ipsos UK and the Global Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership at King鈥檚 Business School, King鈥檚 College London.

(Image: Julia Gillard Credit: Vicki Couchman for King鈥檚 College London)