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Women, Justice and Gender Equality

I know the person involved, and that was just one comment from one other person. The only instance of gender prejudice that I have encountered came from another woman, who asked me in the final meeting before I was elected—the special general meeting—““Because you’re so old and you’re brain isn’t working as well as it used to, how will you manage to read Green Papers and White Papers?”” My instant reaction was to say to myself, ““I must not rise to this bait””, and I assured her that I was like wine in that I was improving as the years passed.