UK: 'Why Harriet Harman is right to call for more women in power'

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'If Harriet Harman will have achieved anything during her two-week stint in charge of the government, it will be this: she has already increased women's visibility in politics. Her own, especially. There she was at the weekend, on the front page of the Sunday Times, in a news story with the screaming headline "You can't trust men in power". And then again, yesterday, on the cover of London's Evening Standard, beneath the no less incendiary header "Woman running Britain says . . . banks crisis is down to men".

All of which could lead innocent souls to believe that Harman has spent the fortnight going after the patriarchy with all guns – or should I say, all bras – blazing. And she has still got a few days to go. Hurrah! The reality is slightly more muted. At no point in her Sunday Times interview did Harman actually say that she didn't trust men. Instead, she suggested that "men cannot be left to run things on their own . . . In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men just running the show themselves." Seems straightforward. And that tone is echoed in the Standard, where she is quoted saying that "women make up half the workforce of insurance companies and banks. Why shouldn't they have a say on the boards as well?"'