Gosh, she’s done well out of notoriety, has Charlotte Proudman. After emerging from entire obscurity after outing an older male barrister for inappropriate remarks about her photo on LinkedIn – I don’t need to remind you about it, do I? – this young lawyer has now come into her own as a columnist on the Guardian today. There was me, thinking she was safely in a university environment doing more sterling work on FGM. Which, obv, I’m against. I mean the practice, not Ms Proudman’s efforts to rid the world of it, which I don’t expect is going to change much.
And, wouldn’t you know it, she’s dissing Jonathan Sumption, Supreme Court Judge, for his observations in an interview with my Evening Standard colleague Martin Bentham to the effect that a) it’ll be half a century before there are equal numbers of male and female judges and b) this may be because women barristers don’t, in Sheryl Sandberg’s catchy phrase, lean in enough; in fact, some may actually lean right back when it comes to the relentless pursuit of preferment.
For Ms Proudman, Lord Sumption’s comments ‘encapsulate his deepest fears that power vested in the old boys’ network could come under siege’.
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