The coalition should treat the number of women elected as teal independents as a wake-up call to implement gender quotas, former prime minister Julia Gillard says.
Ms Gillard said the election of so many women sent a clear message from voters in once safe coalition seats who are demanding more action on gender issues.
"They need to better include (women), have more women representatives, have their policies more inclusive of women's views and women's issues," Ms Gillard told AAP.
"I hope that it leads them to address structural factors and to think about an affirmative action target on their side of politics."
Interest in Ms Gillard's 2012 misogyny speech has grown over the last decade but reached new heights around the 10-year anniversary of its delivery on October 11.
Its influence ranges from people lip-syncing the speech on TikTok to a recently announced Sydney Theatre Company production starring Justine Clarke as the former prime minister in events leading up to the famous speech.
Ms Gillard has not been involved with its development but said it is a new example of how the speech has had an "afterlife" she never expected, fuelled by the exasperation many women feel at inequality in their own lives.
"What I've learned from that is, what a need and an appetite there is amongst women to find ways of dealing with their frustrations, indeed their anger, about going out into a gender unequal world and having sexist things happen to them," she said.
"I always knew gender inequality was out there, but the fact that so many women are just tearing their hair out around it is something that's become clearer and clearer to me over the years."
Ms Gillard said she believed insults about her appearance, clothes, partner and other aspects of her life during her leadership would not be tolerated in 2022.
But female leaders were still subjected to harmful stereotypes and women are subjected to a sewer of misogyny on social media, she said.
"Has that degree of misogyny always been there (and) social media is giving it a voice, or is there something about social media that's exacerbating it? And I think it's a bit of both."
Not Now, Not Ever, a newly released book by the former prime minister, is made up of essays on gender inequality from activists, entertainers and writers.
Former UK prime minister Theresa May and US secretary of state Hillary Clinton share their views in the book, for which proceeds will go to the The Global Institute for Women's Leadership.
Ms Gillard said the book gave young women a platform because she felt a responsibility to use her influence to support the fight against gender inequality into the future.
"Having served as the only woman (prime minister) I want to use those experiences and platform to help catalyse change and to help shine a light on the upcoming generation who just completely blow me away," she said.
