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The reason why we need more women in power - especially older women - is that when women do get to lead, everyone’s lives improve...

Nice to be here. its great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a mans world. do you still see britains legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we havent yet managed to remove that power imbalance. its still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and weve you know, reformed certain areas of law and weve seen women in many more positions...

Are much more likely to have careers as well as families, there is still a great deal of hurdle that women have to surmount in order to get up through the system. but theres also all the other stuff which menjust dont experience, which is the business of sexual harassment or discriminations because of assumptions that are made about women. and i love the fact that recently one of our great writers on political policy, mary ann sieghart, wrote a book called the authority gap, which actually talks...

Of family life and women now are much more likely to have careers as well as families, there is still a great deal of hurdle that women have to surmount in order to get up through the system. but theres also all the other stuff which men just dont experience, which is the business of sexual harassment or discriminations because of assumptions that are made about women. and i love the fact that recently one of our great writers on political policy, mary ann sieghart, wrote a book called the autho...

Baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. its great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a mans world. do you still see britains legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we havent yet managed to remove that power imbalance. its still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and weve, you know, reformed certain areas of...

Are much more likely to have careers as well as families, there is still a great deal of hurdle that women have to surmount in order to get up through the system. but theres also all the other stuff which men just dont experience, which is the business of sexual harassment or discriminations because of assumptions that are made about women. and i love the fact that recently one of our great writers on political policy, mary ann sieghart, wrote a book called the authority gap, which actually talk...

Baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. its great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a mans world. do you still see britains legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we havent yet managed to remove that power imbalance. its still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and weve you know, reformed certain areas of ...

Of family life and women now are much more likely to have careers as well as families, there is still a great deal of hurdle that women have to surmount in order to get up through the system. but theres also all the other stuff which men just dont experience, which is the business of sexual harassment or discriminations because of assumptions that are made about women. and i love the fact that recently one of our great writers on political policy, mary ann sieghart, wrote a book called the autho...

Baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. its great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a mans world. do you still see britains legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we havent yet managed to remove that power imbalance. its still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and weve, you know, reformed certain areas of...

Baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. its great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a mans world. do you still see britains legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we havent yet managed to remove that power imbalance. its still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and weve, you know, reformed certain areas of...