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The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership is pleased to host the Canberra book launch for Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa and her latest work ‘The Woman President: Leadership, Law and Legacy for Women Based on Experiences from South and Southeast Asia’ which looks at the difference a female leader can make to the lives of women.

Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa is a senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney and the Head of the Juris Doctor Program. Her new work presents a comparative study of women’s leadership and legal legacies of four female presidents in the Asia region: Corazon Aquino (1986-1992), Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2001-2010), Megawati Sukarnoputri (2001-2004), and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (1994-2005). The book uses the Gender Legislative Index, a new and innovative methodology, to analyse the impact of women’s presidential leadership on the everyday lives of women. Dr Vijeyarasa is the creator and Chief Investigator of this tool which provides a comprehensive insight into the positive impact that women can make when in power, and the limitations they face. Dr Vijeyarasa uses a rigorous academic evidence base to demonstrate the importance of gender representation in leadership, with far-reaching applications to the Asia region and beyond.

Ramona will be in conversation with Dr Elise Stephenson, a research fellow at the Global Institute of Women’s Leadership, and a 2022 Fullbright Scholar. Dr Stephenson is a multi-award-winning gender researcher with an entrepreneurial background, whose work focuses on intervening at critical junctures to ensure equality in ‘frontier’ international affairs and grand challenges.

Join us in person at the ANU to be part of this important conversation about female leadership, including the opportunity for policy makers and researchers to ask questions of these leading thinkers.

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