Sunday Herald - Holyrood Sisterhood

'I think,' adds Frances Curran, 'women have taken the brunt of a number of different issues in our society, childcare, poverty, domestic violence, and therefore it can have a radicalising effect. But I think there are two issues in women's lives. There is the issue of gender experience in society, and there is also the issue of class. You see, middle-class and upper-class women don't experience society in the same way as working-class women. Put it this way, we were told that when Blair's babes got elected it would make a significant difference for working-class women. But it didn't. Based on experience, I don't have a lot of confidence in middle-class women who get elected to positions to represent me.'