Ladies' Night

Abstract

Unflustered by her host's late entrance, Destroying the Joint editor and all round communications legend Jane Caro points me to an empty chair, signals the waiter to fill my glass and continues seamlessly the story of her reaction to Jones which was to take to Twitter with a call to action: "Got time on my hands tonight so I thought I'd come up with new ways to destroy the joint, being a woman and all. Women and Power offers a bigger, less individual, less blame-y, picture: "Women may be better educated than ever and less dependent on men, even for procreation, but the dream of equality remains elusive, even in the most privileged societies" (Schultz 7). Everyone at the table is nodding. Bowe, a writer of young adult fiction, says she doesn't want to speak on behalf of anyone else but then goes on to nail some pretty universal truths for the world's women: "I think that when girls do not have support and good female role models among their family, teachers and local community, they look to wider society... it's still easy to be (negatively) affected by popular culture and the media" (Caro 218).