I write this in response to Kirstie Allsopp’s latest interview (Kirstie Allsopp: ‘I don’t want the next generation of women to suffer the same heartache’, The Daily Telegraph, June 1, 2014: http://bit.ly/1h3K9MA), where she states that us girls really ought to think about skipping university, in favour of our mothers helping us to get ourselves onto the property ladder and finding ourselves a “nice boyfriend” so that we can get ourselves a baby by the age of 27.
Hmmm, quite.
In the same article, she identifies as a feminist and counter argues that women can go back to university later in life when their children are grown up and then get themselves a career.
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