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What’s on TV tonight: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sit down with Oprah
The i 3/8/2021 Gerard Gilbert
Pick of the day: Oprah With Meghan And Harry
9pm, ITV
Well, here’s a scoop for ITV – at a reported price of £1m – as the broadcaster secures the rights to Oprah Winfrey’s interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the day after it airs in the US. Presumably the content will be all over the news and the internet by then, but that should not stop viewers piling into a chat whose highlights (Meghan: “It was almost unsurvivable”; Harry: “My biggest concern was history repeating itself”) have been heavily trailed.
Purple is the official colour of International Women’s Day, founded more than a century ago after some 15,000 women marched in New York City to demand better working conditions and voting rights. The current iteration of the day is intended to celebrate women’s social, economic, and political achievements and to call for gender equality.
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‘We took our politics way beyond feminism’ … Ruthie Smith, Caroline Gilfillan and Marion ‘Benni’ Lees McPherson. Photograph: Janet Smith
‘We took our politics way beyond feminism’ … Ruthie Smith, Caroline Gilfillan and Marion ‘Benni’ Lees McPherson. Photograph: Janet Smith
They turned down an offer to be Bob Marley’s backing singers to write songs about toxic masculinity and speculum exams. Thirty years after breaking up, they are releasing a debut album
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There weren’t many options for women in music in 1974. Only three women – Diana Ross, Karen Carpenter and Lena Zavaroni – made it into the Top 10 of the UK album chart all year, and Broadway singer Bette Midler had just won best new artist at the Grammys. Female rock stars were starting to gain traction – Suzi Quatro was rising up the charts and the Runaways were waiting in the wings – but it was still years before fem
In the absence of ambition I had good luck.
March 2, 2021
Though I always had passion when I was a young woman, I don’t think I had literary ambition. I think the idea never crossed my mind because ambition was a male thing; when applied to women it was an insult. The Women’s Liberation Movement allowed some women to appropriate this concept, just as they did with assertiveness, competitiveness, desire for power, eroticism, and the self-confidence to say no. Once in a while the women of my generation grabbed the opportunities that were available not that there were many but we rarely had a plan for success.