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Don’t upset ‘the Sisters’

Scared of sexists? Try upsetting the feminists

Sarah Vine

Wednesday, 19th September 2007

How the author came up against censorious feminists

As a study published the other day showed, the equality gap is far from sewn up. Despite the fact that women managers climb the career ladder faster than men and reach positions of responsibility five years earlier than their male counterparts, they are still paid less ...an average of 12 per cent less, rising to 23 per cent at senior level.

Are you still there? Because if I were you I would have wandered off by now, perhaps to tidy my sock drawer, or empty the bins — or perform any number of more fascinating tasks; anything apart from listening to yet another whingeing career woman bleating on about the unfairness of it all. It is not that I don’t care, of course I do: I am a woman and I have a job; but it’s like another recent headlining report, the one about e-numbers making children hyperactive — tell me something I don’t already know.

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Georgia and Ukraine should be allowed to join Nato - Debate report

Lloyd Evans

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Clinton Democrats are to blame for the credit crunch

Dennis Sewell

Our current financial turmoil is not the fault of greedy bankers, says Dennis Sewell. In fact, the banks were bullied into lowering their lending standards by left-wing idealists intent on equal opportunities at any cost

Sex, lies and apparitions

Simon Caldwell

Millions travel to Medjugorje each year but, says Simon Caldwell, the world-famous pilgrimage site may soon be exposed as a fraud

I’m proud to be famous for being rude

Giles Coren

Swearing and shouting are underrated, says Giles Coren. Four-letter words can be immensely satisfying and extraordinarily effective

The masters of the universe have turned to drink

Venetia Thompson

The failure of the $700 billion bail-out has driven her former City-boy chums to despair, says Venetia Thompson. But they must rally soon to keep the market moving

Welcome to the new austerity era, Mr Cameron

Fraser Nelson

Fraser Nelson says that the Tory leader must not be tempted by a ‘safety first’ strategy at his conference in Birmingham. The global financial crisis has transformed the political context and left an opening for the Conservatives to promise true radicalism and to be proudly bold

How Dave and George can avoid a terrible rift

Andrew Tyrie

Andrew Tyrie says that root-and-branch reform of the Treasury will be needed when Brown is gone, including weekly minuted meetings. Past friendship is not enough

I found an undiscovered country: Great Britain

Sarfraz Manzoor

Sarfraz Manzoor finds a sense of liberation as he travels to Durness in Scotland, slipping out of the clothes of his ethnicity, and exploring what it means to be British

‘You grow up with footballs. We grow up with kukris’

James Delingpole

James Delingpole meets the Gurkha veterans seeking citizenship rights in the courts and says that, this time, the government has picked the wrong fight

Brown has exploited immigration to hide from deep problems

Fraser Nelson

The PM’s claim to have created three million British jobs is a grave deceit, says Fraser Nelson. Strip out immigrants from the picture, and Labour has barely dented the problem of British worklessness. Over to you, Mr Cameron