Former prime minister Julia Gillard says we need to reshape the campaign for gender equality, as our decades of advocacy have “clearly landed in a way that is felt as exclusionary or diminishing” for many. She says she is driven by her deeply held conviction that a gender-equal world will be better for everyone.

“We have got to be self-critical and analytical about our obvious inability to take young men, in particular, on the journey with us,” she said in The Australian newspaper on the weekend.