Let’s not go the old Chinese way

Women power: The writer (right) at the launch of WOW

GROWING up in the 1970s, I was vaguely aware that there was a movement in the West by women who were fighting for equality. They were called feminists – which had ugly man-hating overtones because they famously burned their bras.

Such was my ignorance that even as a young journalist, I accepted sexual harassment, along with smoking and cussing, as part and parcel of my male-dominated workplace. I didn’t even know there was a name for such behaviour then.