Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - "Women & Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons" - Linda Zerilli

Monday, February 8, 2021 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Event Presenter/Author: 
Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will discuss Women & Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons. They will be joined in conversation by Linda Zerilli.

Presented in partnership with the Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership

Virtual event

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About the book: Women make up fewer than ten percent of national leaders worldwide, and behind this eye-opening statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Through conversations with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women—including Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Bachelet, and Theresa May—Women and Leadership explores gender bias and asks why there aren't more women in leadership roles. Speaking honestly and freely, these women talk about having their ideas stolen by male colleagues, what it's like to be called fat or a slut in the media, and what things they wish they had done differently. The stories they tell reveal vividly how gender and sexism affect perceptions of women as leaders. Using current research as a starting point, Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala analyze the lived experiences of these women leaders. The result is a rare insight into life as a leader and a powerful call to arms for women everywhere.

About Julia Gillard: Julia Gillard was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 2010 to 2013.

About Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was Nigeria's Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2006 and from 2011 to 2015, and Foreign Minister in 2006. She was Managing Director of the World Bank from 2007 to 2011, overseeing South Asia, Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, and is currently Board Chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Chair of the African Risk Capacity (ARC). She is the author of Reforming the Unreformable and Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous (both published by the MIT Press).

About the interlocutor: Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. Zerilli is the author of Signifying Woman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994), Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), A Democratic Theory of Judgment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), and articles on subjects ranging across feminist thought, the politics of language, aesthetics, democratic theory, and Continental philosophy.

Event Location: 
Virtual