Why some sisters are more equal than others

I’m ALL in favour of marking the 100th anniversary of women winning the vote, but let us not forget it was only given to women over the age of 30 who owned property — in other words a certain class of female.

It took another ten years for women over 21 to be enfranchised. And there are still echoes of this today where older, richer women who think they know better lord it over their younger, working-class sisters.

Last week’s juxtaposition between the banned glamour girls of Formula 1 and darts — out of a job thanks to the panic following the so-called Presidents Club ‘scandal’ — and the equal pay harpies at the BBC brought these divisions into sharp relief. It was these same privileged women who spent most of yesterday back- slapping each other while their glamorous sisters, presumably, were looking for work.

To paraphrase George orwell, the essence of 21stcentury feminism seems to be that all women are created equal — but some are more equal than others.