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The Woman's Hour Power List this week has been criticised for being rather predictable and class-based - for not including, for example, the women who came forward over Jimmy Savile. Do you think these lists do women any favours?
We live in what I call the 80/20 society- where we have 20% representation of women in public life, be it in parliament or the media or in business etc. That means that we have to do more to show what we're missing by not being a 50/50 world. Anything which helps identify the talent we have is a good thing and the challenge is how do we keep expanding it to make sure we are using the opportunities to highlight the range of skills that exist across society. Class, ethnicity, disability all come into understanding what barriers people face- the point is that it does no one any favours to live in an equal world, male or female, as we miss out on what they can do!