From the Opinions Editor | Women’s empowerment and the politics of benevolence
In Women and Power, the British classicist Mary Beard asks, “how and why do the conventional definitions of ‘power’, (or for that matter, of ‘knowledge’, ‘expertise’ and ‘authority’)… exclude women?” Beard goes on to explain that this exclusion, from “politics in its widest sense, from office committees to the floor of the House”, is not…