BBC: Women in politics-2

Helen Clark believes women leaders are more collaborative- they prefer working cooperatively with several people to achieve a common goal. She constrasts this with a stricter, more dictatorial leadership style by using the expression, my way or the highway- an idiom used as a warning that someone will only accept their way of doing things. 

In fact, adopting such dictatorial approaches has been the end of many political leaders, including Mrs Thatcher and, mor recently, Liz Truss...which brings me back to my question, Neil- how long did Liz Truss last as prime minister?

I guess it was 45 days. Was I right?

That was...the correct answer! Liz Truss was prime minister for just 45 days, the shortes premiership of any British leader ever, male or female, OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned in this programme on women in politics, starting with misogyny- the dislike or hatred of women. 

If you are coached in something, you are trained or instrcted in how to improve that particular skill. 

Attire means the clothes you are wearing. 

If you have to walk a tightrope, you're in a difficult situation that requires careful behaviour. 

The adjective collaborative involves several people working together for a particular purpose. 

And finally, the idiom it's my my way or the highway can be used as a warning that someone will only accept their own way of doing things.