Cathy Newman

You know, everybody's got a choice with what they do with their life.

That's great.

But I feel as if, yes, some of the things that when I was in my 20s and 30s, some of the things we argued for and felt that we'd won, that's going backwards.

So, for example, as we've touched on before, in the online space,

I think all women are asking for is to feel as safe in the online space as they are in the real world.

And that currently is not the case.

And, you know, if you look at the rape figures, you know, there are some improvements being made in certain police forces.

But, you know, there are parts of the country where people, MPs have said, and I think it's true, that rape is effectively decriminalised.

And that is shocking in this day and age.

And, you know, I've had my own experience of dealing with offences going to the police and the sort of length of time and the effort you have to put in as a victim of abuse.

Exactly and I do think that you know we're in a position of immense privilege and you know if you're a woman from a less well-off background you're struggling to make ends meet particularly at the moment in a cost of living crisis you know you've got this economic crisis that has been

sort of inflicted on everyone, I think that's where you see the kind of real inequalities.

So, yeah, it's important to sort of recognise that, yeah, great battles have been won in the field of TV, you know, presenting.

But there are many more issues that, you know, affecting women from all sorts of different fields.

Well, a hard hitting TV journalism, because, you know, I didn't get a TV until I was 16.

And when I did, I saw Kate Adie standing in a flak jacket reporting from a war zone.

And I genuinely didn't realise that those kind of jobs were open to women.

So, you know, those kind of really tough TV jobs.

So, yeah, you've got to see the change, haven't you?

yeah yeah I thought about I I loved playing the violin and so I thought about being a violin teacher both my parents were teachers and I remember one of one of their friends who was also a teacher said to me oh it's a dog's life being a teacher so anyway then I thought about being a lawyer um and then I just I it was seeing Kate Adie that sort of changed my mind have you had the opportunity in your career to