Anastasia De Waal
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/ 1 March 2006

Marriage = equality

I was recently on a discussion programme with a fully signed-up card-carrying feminist. ”Damn,” she said, as we came off, ”I said ‘husbands’ by mistake, instead of ‘partners’.” She’d made the ultimate faux pas — the assumption that couples must be married. But is it right, particularly when so many feminists — like herself — have chosen to get married, that marriage should continue to be taboo?