As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1<br>3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1<br>5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1<br>10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination. . . to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.
Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.