Like many women of my generation, I thought of myself as not quite good enough for the various powerful positions in politics. Baroness Shirley Williams talks openly on radio 4 about how she and many women always think about themselves as the Deputy...the deputy eduction minister but not the education...
I feel like a Russian doll. I get smaller and smaller as the testosterone in the boardroom gets bigger and bigger. I tell myself I am a confident woman yet the environment I am in makes me feel I must change my persona and adapt to my 'male' surroundings. I must cut across people when they speak...
