Harriet Harman, Minister for Equality, may be a well-known feminist and has confessed to putting men’s noses out of joint, but she gets issues that matter back in the spotlight. And the absence of women in senior political positions does matter. What she said makes perfect sense:
“I think it’s a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership. In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men just running the show themselves. I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions.”
But how many people, especially men, would have just ignored her views on this? But with the controversial, “Men cannot be left to run things on their own” comment, she’s managed to make this front page news.
Indeed, cries of sexism from men can be heard from every corner of the room, retorting grumpily, “what if we said that about women? We’d never get away with it”.
But the point is, she whipped the media into a frenzy and now the issue of women in politics is back on the agenda! Clever, eh?
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