Julia Dethroned!

Keep yourself updated: just as Hilary Clinton is no longer the US Secretary of State, Julia Gillard is also no longer the PM of Australia, though of course you can still quote them as examples if your use the prefix 'ex'.
What is also interesting here though is Gillard's mention of how difficult it is for her to be at the top -- 'not an easy environment to work in'.  Not to mention the sexism and misogyny(hatred of women) she claimed to suffer from whilst she was in the top position of the country.
For those who have done the Cambridge 2005 paper on Aggression and the Dunman High 2010 Prelim gender compre, note the point that even whilst women may be breaching the glass ceiling and attaining positions of power and influence, they actually have a hard time up there also and as shown in the case of Gillard, her reign at the top is actually short termed. Women at the top are often judged more harshly than the men even if they may be qualified to be in that seat. The fact that they are an anomaly up there means they are under intense scrutiny, where everyone is watching their every step, as if waiting for them to make a mistake and fall so that they can pounce on them and validate their initial prejudiced feelings that women have no business being in that seat. And even if the women did not make any mistakes, they may still be subjected to the vilifications of the misogynistic and sexist males who cannot wait to discredit them.
Refer to earlier post on CEO Yahoo Marissa Mayer, whose policy to abolish telecommuting (home office) drew a lot of flake, even though there are other male CEOs who had done the same thing earlier without the media so much as giving a whimper.

Sample Qn:
The world of the future will be a woman's world. Do you agree?
Women have it easier than men in today's society. What is your view?