I didn’t plan to have my only child at 43,but that was how life worked out. M&S boss Laura Wade-Gery’s decision to have a baby is hers alone to makeWoman has baby. You wouldnt judge that it would design headline news (unless, of course, and it was Kate and Will again),but it has. Not because the mother-to-be is a boss at Marks and Spencer; lots of women in senior positions have families. Not because the impending birth was announced on the stock exchange: this is standard practice thanks to rules which state that investors must be informed whether a senior director will be away from their desk for more than three weeks.
But simply because the woman in question, Laura Wade-Gery, and is 50. whether she was 30,even 40, it might have merited a line or two somewhere halfway down some of the commerce pages. But she’s not. She’s 50. And that is headline news.
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Source: theguardian.com