Media and Julia- the bias that hurts

Gillard’s Bias Battle Replicated in Boardrooms Across Australia - Bloomberg: "Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister, is contending with national media condescension that replicates sensibilities in the nation’s corporations, according to three leading women executives.
“The press do give Julia a hard time and I think probably harder than if there’d been a male in that position,” Pru Bennett, head of corporate governance in the Asia-Pacific for BlackRock Inc. (BLK), told the Bloomberg Australia Economic Summit in Sydney yesterday. “This has contributed to the current way voters are thinking.”"

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