What Do Lovely Ladies Do for a Living?

The author answers the question of what role politics plays in her life as a historian and broadcaster and discusses the gender politics in the educational system in Great Britain. She discusses her work in education,in broadcasting as a member of the British Broadcasting corporation, and in the public sector as chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and talks about gender related issues she had encountered from old views of gender roles to equal treatment issues.