Lexi,

There are good examples of female leaders such as Golda Meier and Thatcher, the thread is really why the female leaders in Australia have been so hopeless.

Juliar, and Bligh, through lying to the electorate have led their parties to record lows.

SM, what about Carmen Lawrence, Joan Kirner, Clair Martin, Lara Giddings and Katy Gallagher?

How hopeless have they been, or currently are?

Carmen Lawrence and Joan Kirner, led their party to defeat,
Katy Gallagher, and Lara Giddings were not elected and assumed the role, Giddings party polling is sinking, and I don't have any real feed back on Katy.

I don't agree with the sentiment from certain males
that the female leaders in Australia have been so
"hopeless." Wasn't it a female who ousted a Prime
Minister from his elecotrate. I will again
stress that - the record of female
leaders is just as varied as their male counterparts
and demonstrates the impracticality of using gender to
differentiate between leadership styles. Females have
led in a wide variety of roles in a wide variety of
disciplines and just as males have done. They have
contributed greatly to this country.

Here's a "mixed" list that should jog some memories:

Caroline Chisholm, Dame Enid Lyons, Edith Cowan,
Louis O'Donoghue, Roma Mitchell, Marion Scrymgour,
Shirley Smith,Florence Cardell-Oliver, Margaret
Whitlam, Margaret Court,Amanda Vandstone, Carmen
Lawrence, Linda Burney, Mary Gilmore, May Holman,
Lady Millicent Peacock, Susan Ryan, Joan Kirner,
Elizabeth Kenny, Nellie Melba, Joan Sutherland,
Gina Rhinehart, Elisabeth Murdoch, and many, many more.