Who is a feminist....and why?

I think that we all find that such women make the going hard. It has taken such an long time for women to vote for women candidates, whether its the golf club or a local council. It is better now but after 50 years there is still so much still to do. You wonder if the treament of old people in the UK would be better if 80 % of the elderly in care were men instead of women.

Oh god, it's just like the women who were against women having the vote...., how far have we got, I wonder?

I remember my mother who was a primary school teacher (and the breadwinner for family of 6 females) telling me that she was not a member of one of the teaching unions because they did not agree with equal pay. She was a member of NUT and I think the other lot were striking. Must have been about 1957. I think I was a feminist from that day on.

When canvassing at election time, I've often been scandalized by women who 'don't vote' or vote the way their husbands vote. I was so proud of my GD when she had her first opportunity to vote, haranguing her friends about their duty to vote! Granny obviously has had some influence...

My grandmothers were born around turn of last century so lived through the suffragette movement and believe you me, they both voted diligently. My nana used to tell a story about how she disagreed with her husband about which way to vote, while they were on the bus. She got off the bus and walked !
The other one always used to vote Tory despite not having 2 pennies to rub together and living in S Wales. Part of an upwardly mobile mindset I think. Her mother got the family out of the coal field and set sons up in business. My gran left the chapel and joined the C of E. If she had better education or a start in business there would have been no stopping her. Instead a husband gassed in the first ww and a son who was disabled by rheumatic heart disease.
That generation of women were very conscious of the sacrifices made by the suffragettes.

so with you there-my vote is wasted here because people vote one way blindly and refuse to see that making their seat marginal would bring money jobs and prospective MPs champing at the bit