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IQ2 hosts a live debate at the City Recital Hall in Sydney on the 28th October about “Society would flourish under female rule”.

Speakers for the motion are sociologist, academic and author Eva Cox and business women Diane Smith-Gander and Kerry Chikarovski. Speakers against the motion are broadcaster and writer Helen Razer, philosopher Nicole Vincent and teacher, author and activist Jane Caro.

Prominent feminists, like Germaine Greer, believe that the world will gain little if women assume power only to rule as men have ruled for millennia. Rather, she argues, all will benefit (men included) in a world in which women have a transformative effect on our world – not only in terms of righting a historic injustice but also by rebalancing the ethical wheel of history – for the benefit of us all. But is this so? Would a world ruled by women be any better than a world ruled by men?

IQ2 (a project of St James Ethics Centre) organises a number of public debates in Sydney and Melbourne each year. The purpose of the IQ2 series is to raise the level of public discourse on challenging issues by providing a forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis. To this end, a significant part of the evening is set aside for an open floor period, giving attendees the opportunity to put points or questions to the speakers, and the audience is polled both before and after the debate.