I love the thought you put into your responses. Yes I think it is a different dynamic when it is an all female panel. My daughters go to a co-ed school but my youngest has just been moved up to the top maths group and they have divided the class so there is an all boy class and an all girl class, I think in a bid to encourage girls to like maths, and hopefully have them a bit more keen to participate when it’s not in front of boys. The male/female dynamics in the workplace are always interesting. I’ve worked in offices dominated by very opinionated women and sometimes that wasn’t healthy! Neither was my experience in male dominated offices brimming with sexism! Somehow there has to be a nice mix, and you are right personality comes into it too!

So true.

I think what it comes down to is that an hour is just not enough time to talk about all the things that need discussing!

Thanks Shelly, it’s always nice to know you aren’t alone in what you are thinking. I think it is important that there are advocates for sex workers and Magnanti obviously has a unique perspective on the issue – but perhaps because it’s not an area relevant to my life it just seemed to take up a lot of the conversation- when I was perhaps hoping for a more rounded discussion???

I really wanted to hear what Deborah Cheetham had to say, but the show was dominated by Magnanti’s talk about sex work. Also, I thought it was in poor taste, whatever one feels about Margaret Thatcher, to make a comment about drinking champagne at the news of her death.

Thanks for writing this post. I was hoping someone would write it, but I never thought it would match what I was thinking so perfectly.

I know, so funny I posted mine and went on to Facebook to see your post pop up! That is such a great point that we have to show young girls the power of speaking up. I was really looking forward to the program but just felt a bit deflated afterwards, that there really wasn’t the opportunity for the panel to get stuck into the serious issues.