It was Ladies’ Day at the RAC yesterday, so I went with my friends and did a water aerobics class.
It was Ladies’ Day at the RAC yesterday, so I went with my friends and did a water aerobics class. When I first started going to the RAC, ladies could only go as ‘the daughter of’ or ‘the wife of’. That all changed when some smart legally trained ‘daughter of’ brought a case against the club for sex discrimination. That’s what happens when you educate your daughters!
Here’s a couple of questions for Spectator readers: would you rather your daughter brought home a first-class degree or a prince? Would you rather she was praised for being clever or being pretty? It’s still up for debate in Britain today as to which sort of a girl is more successful. And no, I don’t believe women can ‘have it all’ as the Eighties ‘it’ girls were taught. Thirty years on and Kate Middleton is more famous than Arianna Huffington, Oprah and Hillary Clinton put together.
I have noticed that it is quite common for women in ‘men’s jobs’ to lose the plot. For instance: female judges. It appears to me that female judges within the Family Division revel in being tougher than the men. Instead of bringing the traditional feminine attributes of compassion and empathy to court, they issue the most draconian of orders. In my experience in the family courts, it has been the male judges who have shown the most compassion. One memorable exception was a fabulous female Court of Appeal judge who seemed to revel in her femininity. She tossed her hair, crossed her legs and showed off her cleavage while making perfect common and legal sense.
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