IYHO of course - did you ever consider there is a remote possibility that your opinions are not always 100% correct? Clearly you have not been subjected to or even witness to the plethora of 'glass ceiling' situations that females encounter on a daily basis throughout their lives. And my apologies to the wider AFF community if my grammer is not as polished as yours may be.
You have (ideologically?) misrepresented the point my comments were actually making and introduced a red herring argument. JG is in no way representative of someone who has felt the weight of any glass ceiling. In fact you probably couldn’t have thought of a worse argument to cite because her career has been spectacularly devoid of hurdles, and certainly none related to her gender.
Her rise to the Prime Ministership was no more onerous than it would have been for a male; in fact, compared to many, it was far easier.
My understanding is that she rose to partner at Slater & Gordon in quick time and then enjoyed preferential preselection in her safe Labor seat when she was forced out of S&G because her dubious legal practices were even intolerable for them, a strongly left/union based law firm. A comparatively quick rise through the parliamentary ranks followed, and ended in her knifing Rudd at which time she was substantially younger than Rudd, Abbott and Turnbull were when they became PM.
Far from encountering any glass ceiling, the evidence points to JG having been fast tracked at various stages of her career. Her career was never delayed or hindered at any stage so your characterisation of her as being representative of prejudice against women in the workplace could not be more misplaced.
Many people might perceive her terrible, perhaps incompetent, performance as PM, limping from one disastrously poor decision to another for which only she could be blamed, and her plummet in approval ratings, which led to her subsequent inglorious exit from parliament, as hardly evidence of sufficient merit to receive the AC (Australia’s highest honour). If anything, it merely diminishes the standing of the award if it is awarded to anyone (of either gender) based on their anatomy.
