THIS weeks City Limits magazıne carries interviews with all the would-be leaders of the Labour Lucky Neil Kinnock, who won the competition, spoke out frankly about feminism home and in the Party Did Glenys and Neil Kinnock talk about feminism?' 'Glenys is aware of the vestiges of sexism in my vocabulary. She doesn't think I'm sexist, but she says I misrepresent myself if I'm not aware of the need not to bird, or i use for instance? 'He had read bits and pieces, mainly articles, women's therg. tion. Had it changed his ways as a man? Did he do any housework?' Honestly, I don't,' he conceded. Well, no, tell you what, I do things I TA clean the fridge maybe in the holidays. Glenys is full-time teacher, and I've spent years and years trying to persuade her somebody to help her, and for the last we've had a smashing woman come in four hours a week.
'That's a great help, mainly because it enables Glenys to spend more time with the kids, so that she doesn't come home to the wreckage at 4.30. But it took me years to persuade her.
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