ABSTRACT
Discourses that attest to the fact that ‘women have made it’ are prevalent in contemporary Western societies. These discourses cite evidence of widening opportunities, choices and potential in women’s lives. They point out that more women are in paid employment; more women are achieving ever higher educational qualifications; more women are choosing to delay having children or are choosing not to have them at all; and there are increasing numbers of women in managerial and professional positions. At the level of political representation, in 2000 there were more women representatives in the British parliament than ever before.
