Women's Questions (again)

For the last time this parliament (will they bother after the election) so decided to honour the occasion by referring to the importance of work-life balance for men. Rather disconcertingly there was a cheer from the Tory men - I can't be sure that Eric Forth joined in but if he did it was a first.

Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that women's questions is a tokenistic waste of time. There are a relatively small number of questions that can be asked and the responses are predicable - and never really address the issues.

Grand finale was Eleanor Laing commenting on the biggest inequality of all - the balance of parliamentarians!! How she had the nerve to bring this up when the Tory record on women is not great (ours is not much better) I don't know but it gave every one a good laugh.