Glenys Kinnock believes that women bring unique skills to politics that are connected to their family responsibilities and their different ways of dealing with each other. She says that men go in for "wheeler dealing", women are better at co-operation and negotiation by consensus.

"I think women have very different skills, they bring different attitudes, different experiences to politics. I think that we don't wheeler deal in the same way that men do, that we do find it easier to seek agreements and to build co-operation between other politicians in order to get what we think are important objectives. And I think the fact that most of us have families, children, that brings a different experience, a huge breadth of knowledge and understanding that men don't bring to the job."