The woman most likely to replace Julie Bishop in the prized seat of Curtin once gave a speech where she rallied against the “militant feminist movement” that told females it wasn’t OK to “stay home” and “raise the children”.

In the 2013 speech, Celia Hammond also said that she had “never known a single woman who has been able to have a premarital casual sexual encounter ... who hasn’t actually ... been searching for something more”.

“What they’re being sold is a pup,” she said in the speech delivered to the Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture in Perth.

Ms Hammond resigned as Vice Chancellor of the University of Notre Dame on Monday, throwing hat in the ring to replace Ms Bishop in Curtin. She had been at the Catholic university for 21 years, the past 11 as Vice Chancellor.

Ms Bishop, the former foreign minister who has represented the seat since 1998, has stressed her desire for another woman to take her place.

The Liberal Party are under fire for their lack of female MPs.

In the 2013 speech, Ms Hammond acknowledged the fight previous generations of women had fought for equal rights but said that feminism had discouraged young women from feeling accepted, should they choose to be stay-at-home mothers.

“One of the results of the militant feminist movement is to say you want to be a mother, to say you want to stay home, that you want to look after the house and raise the children, is not an acceptable life goal,” she said.

“We are thankful for all those women who have gone before us who’ve given us that choice and that opportunity.

“Throughout my schooling in the 1970s and 1980s, I was never disadvantaged because of being female.

“There were no subjects refused to me to study. During my formative years I could legitimately dream — and dream I did, about studying anything post-school and moving into a career in any field.

“I dreamed of having a family, having a career and having an ‘everything’ life.”