Westminster is a steamy workplace where men dominate
The Independent, February 25th 2013 All the ingredients conspire to give the men a sense of entitlement and the women too little power to fight back It’s a man’s world, Westminster. More than three-quarters of MPs are male. Granted, the secretaries are mostly women, but so rare is the sight of a young blonde […]
Let more women report how the country is run
The Independent, January 16th 2013 The fact that all the national daily papers have male political editors, and many have all-male political teams, is bound to affect the issues they cover and the politicians they rate On Tuesday evening, a rare gaggle of political women met for drinks in a room in the House […]
Cosmetic surgery is bad. That women feel the need for it is worse
The Independent, January 2nd 2013 The pressure to look attractive can be the worst part of being female A friend went to the wedding of a British man and his Texan girlfriend. She looked across the aisle and saw a whole row of identical-looking women. “I didn’t know Diane had so many sisters,” she said […]
Women still can’t have it all – but perhaps their daughters can
The 20th-century model designed for men with wives at home isn’t suited to the 21st century
Let’s have more fathers holding the baby
We’ll know equality has arrived when we ask a man ‘What will you do after the baby is born?’
Judge women on their ability – not on their age or their looks
They’re patronised when they’re young, and deemed past it at their peak
Giving women power requires action
Queens have been even better at running the country than Kings
Nobody likes quotas, but you have to admit they work
As politics shows, good intentions are all very well but progress is achingly slow
Women on top? You've got to be joking
We have been fed the line that the ‘Future is Female’. But the future always fails to materialise
