Put 20 working women in a room, lubricate with plenty of good wine and what do you get? Twenty strident and completely different ideas about what women want — or that’s certainly what happened at a dinner I went to last week.
I was particularly struck by the anger of one young woman — let’s call her Jane. She works at least a 60-hour week. With glee, she told me how she was rarely off a plane, had an immensely senior job with a global brief and loved every minute of it. Her husband looks after their two kids full-time and she earns enough to keep them all in style. Her gripe? That legislation designed to protect women is now killing them with kindness. “I don’t want special pleading, or flexible hours. I just want to be the best I can be at my job,” she said fiercely.
Jane may be an extreme case, but there are plenty of female breadwinners like her. Last week we learnt that 20% of wives earn more than their husbands (a fivefold increase on the 1970 figure).
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