When Douglas Hurd, a former government minister and unelected member of the upper chamber of parliament, said last week that there was a ludicrous obsession with ensuring equal representation of men and women in public life, observers felt he was overstating his case: the obsession appears to have little concrete effect, since only one in five MPs is female and women make up just one in three appointees to public boards.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:54:23 +0000
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