UK: 'Just because they're women, doesn't mean they're any good'

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'One of the interesting questions that feminism turned up was whether sex was the bit of your identity that trumped the rest: class, religion, nationality. Actually, if you dig out a dusty copy of The Female Eunuch, you'll find that many Seventies feminists were anti-capitalist, but even so, one of the prevailing assumptions of the women's movement (pre-Thatcher) was that Team Woman was what you supported as a woman, almost regardless of how you felt about its members.

That whole mindset seems mildly quaint now, but it has been given a detox by Harriet Harman, Labour's Deputy Leader. She says in an interview that voters are fed up with "boys running the show". Two years ago, she tried to ensure that, in the Labour Party, either the leader or deputy leader would be a woman'