A favourite question of job interviewers is "Who do you admire?" and back when I worked in the corporate world, my "I'm a serious and professional woman" answer would always be 'Mo Mowlam'.
Dr. Mowlam truly deserved to be admired - a woman who not only got ahead in a man's world, she succeeded where decades of men before her had failed by overseeing the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement, all whilst suffering with a brain tumour - however the replies which I really wanted to give, the names of the women who really inspire me didn't seem appropriate in such a formal setting.
