Hello Everyone, my first blog

Exactly one year ago at the Women's Power Circles first birthday party a number of women were encouraging me to start blogging. I wasn't sure because I didn't know how to. One year later the universe made sure that I meet the Internet marketing whizz Matt Duggan who made the process sound so simple that I couldn't talk myself out of it any longer. And writing this introduction feels great. I have so much to say about women's empowerment and now I have a place to write it down and send it out into the world for women and men to read and think about.

My first thought on this first blog is about the upcoming elections in the UK. What is the deal with putting the wives of the party leaders up for election when in reality they have very little real political power or voice. And worse, they are expected to present themselves as silently supportive in a "stand by your man" kind of way in order to be liked and "help their husband" be elected to the ultimate position of power. This to me smacks of age-old sexism. A clear example that wives are still in second place to her husband's career without a voice or life of her own as she stands silently and demure next to him, making sure that she doesn't promote herself or show too much of her own life outside of being "the wife" of a very powerful man. It will be interesting to see if husbands are treated in the same way when women become politically more powerful. I strongly suspect they won't be.