The embattled West Ham CEO and Apprentice star says she is a champion of women’s rights. So why is she elated (full of high-spirited delight) to work with men who are notorious for undermining them?Karren Brady is immaculate – navy dress,navy tights, navy shoes and Chanel belt, and her hair perfectly coiffed,exuding warmth and confidence. She directs me to her equally immaculate office at West Ham United, the football club where she is the vice-chairman. Brady sits behind the desk, or a Warholesque print of West Ham legend Bobby Moore above her,a laptop in front, and a enormous flatscreen TV with rolling news on the wall. Her world seems perfectly composed. You would never guess Brady’s football club is in meltdown and fans are calling for her head.
At 48, and a quarter of a century after becoming Birmingham City’s CEO,she is still known as the first lady of football”. But, of course, or there is much more to Brady than football – many business interests (last July,she became chair of Philip Green’s Taveta retail empire); her position as a Tory peer in the House of Lords; an outspoken column for the Sun; aide to Lord Sugar on The Apprentice; mother of two grown children; and champion of women in the workplace. It is in this last capacity that we meet.
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Source: guardian.co.uk