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What Borgen and The Iron Lady tell us about women in power
Both new Danish political drama Borgen and Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady show us there is still no clear map for women in politicsFor anyone wanting to see a woman politician operating at the top of her game, the new Danish drama Borgen offered a brilliant, if fictional, example on Saturday night. The first episode showed Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), the Moderate party leader, in the last three days of an election race, emerging as the model of a modern political player, both morally and tactically.
published date:Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:30:04 GMT