The Girl Guides once taught young women to cope away from civilisation with camping trips and nature skills.
Now, they are more concerned with helping them face the challenges of modern life.
Are the women of Whitehall and Westminster so hacked off with our degraded way of doing politics that they are finally going to force some revolutionary changes? I’ve never known so many senior women so dismayed by the one-upmanship games of male politicians.
It is worth saying again: Prejudice against women fulfilling their professional promise is one of the most pernicious discriminations still tolerated in the UK.
MPs are to launch an inquiry into why so many women are quitting politics as David Cameron faces calls to promote more female ministers and end "childish bullying" culture of the Commons.
When Anna Margareth Abdallah entered the Tanzanian parliament in 1975, she was one of only five female MPs.
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
New research has found negative media coverage of former PM, Julia Gillard, is discouraging women from pursuing their political aspirations.
The MPs making obscene gestures at Sarah Champion and other women in the Commons are the backbench nonentities.