So the shine has come off Supermum.
According to a Cambridge University report published this week, more people now think that a woman who works does so at the expense of her family: enthusiasm for equality in the workplace peaked in the 90s and is now waning.
Leaving aside the fact that all this is based on a six-year-old survey, and also that record numbers of women are now returning to work, who is or was Supermum anyway? I am a woman who works (as arts editor for the Guardian), and who also has a small child. Ninety per cent of the time these two things hang together, and I am in no way super – never have been, never will be.
