Saturday, 24 January 2009

Appearence and Reality

Platell's People: Oh, you're so selfish, Madame Supermum
Last updated at 9:59 PM on 09th January 2009



At first glance, the pictures flashed across the world of French justice minister Rachida Dati returning to work less than five days after the birth of her first child represent a triumph for career women everywhere.
The outfit was so calculatingly chic, the heels so high they would tower over mere mortals.
Beautiful, successful, chic, beaming with happiness, Ms Dati looked every inch the role model for sophisticated high achievers.
Indeed, she was working from her hospital bed the day before, despite a Caesarean.
Supermum or super-selfish? For behind the perfectly coiffured glamour I fear there lies a more troubling trend of the marginalisation of men from family life and the institutionalisation of single motherhood by the state - not just in France but in many Western nations and particularly here in Britain.

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