Gillard: Australia not yet ready for female PM

Posted at 14:20 on 2 November, 2007

While Labor's Julia Gillard is hopeful of becoming Australia's first female deputy prime minister, but she does not believe that the country is quite ready for a woman in the top job. That is despite New Zealand being headed by Helen Clark, and Hillary Clinton the current favourite to become the next President of the United States. What do you think? Will we have a female PM any time soon?

Ms Gillard is confident she will live to see a female prime minister. But it would only happen once both sides of politics had several potential candidates, she said. "I think we've got to get to a stage where it's not about one woman, (where) there's five women on each side of politics who potentially could come through. "It's when we've got that number on each side that you'll finally see a woman come through."