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Should women reveal maternity plans?

It's sparked a fierce debate about sexism in New Zealand, when just hours into her new job as opposition leader Jacinda Ardern was quizzed on a radio show about her plans for motherhood and whether she would take maternity leave if elected as Prime Minister.

To debate the issue, Deborah Russell, a feminist commentator and politician in New Zealand, and Ruth Dudley Edwards, a UK based historian and writer. So, were the questions reasonable?

Picture: Woman holds baby aloft. Credit: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images.

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