‘Who’s Who in the Modern British Marriage?’ asked the Observer Magazine of 29 December 1968. Earlier that year, on the 50th anniversary of votes for women, they had published a questionnaire by the US Maferr Foundation to find out such things as ‘Who makes the decisions? Who works and how do they feel about it? Who sets out for self-improvement and who backs it?’ ‘The Forsytes,’ reported Maureen Green, referring to The Forsyte Saga, a popular TV show of the time, ‘wouldn’t have understood one important finding of our survey: the healthy democratic condition of the average British middle-class marriage. Paternal tyrants – as well as dominating wives – are in the minority in working out who decides what in the marriage.’