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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. it's 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 man's world. do you still see britain's legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we haven't yet managed to remove that power imbalance. it's still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and we've you know, reformed certain areas of law and we've seen women in many more positions of authority and power. but there's still an authority gap.

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 there's also all the other stuff which menjust don't 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 about the ways in which even when you are a successful woman, you still face those things where p...

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 there's also all the other stuff which men just don't 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 about the ways in which even when you are a successful woman, you s...

Baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. it's 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 man's world. do you still see britain's legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we haven't yet managed to remove that power imbalance. it's still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and we've, you know, reformed certain areas of law and we've seen women in many more positions of authority and power. but there's still an ...