Published: May 03, 2019
As Penny Mordaunt becomes the first female defence secretary, Theresa May can be judged as a prime minister, not a failed pioneer
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2LfNtJE
via
In March 1973, Margaret Thatcher sat down for an interview with the Blue Peter presenter Valerie Singleton and a studio audience of school pupils. She was then education secretary. The footage has become notorious, clipped into infamy. Asked “Would you like to see a woman prime minister?”, Thatcher plays the Tory no-special-treatment card – “I don’t think it depends so much whether it’s a man prime minister or a woman prime minister as whether that person is the right person for the job.” The current crop of women, she goes on to suggest, don’t have the necessary ministerial experience to make such a leap.
Related: Penny Mordaunt becomes first ever female defence secretary
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2LfNtJE
via
0 Comments