ABSTRACT
The airwaves are heavy instead with commitments to strengthening equal opportunities and bringing more women into work. In the traditional society which so many commentators are quick to declare themselves glad to see the back of, the specific interests of women were identified explicitly with the private realm, and indeed seen as its core. In terms of the current representation of women's views, it is obviously very significant that the choice generation of baby-boomers contains most of the women who are now at the peak of their careers and influence. For the choice generation contains the first group of women in Britain to penetrate deeply into professional life. Women in professional and managerial jobs have not only increased as a proportion of all women, but have stepped up their work-rate too, at the expense of the housewife category. In traditional, pre-meritocratic British society, many women favoured the Conservative Party, which was seen as the party of marriage and the family.
