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Maggie's male colleagues believed women were 'too hysterical' for politics!

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London, June 11 -- When Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the Tory Party, many of her old fashioned male colleagues believed she would never last - because of the belief that women were "inclined to bouts of hysteria".

Baroness Shirley Williams, the Lib Dem peer and former Labour cabinet minister, says on 'Dinner With Portillo' that a lot of the reasons men in those days believed that women could not be good leaders had to so with the Freudian fallacy, reports the Daily Express.

"I remember when she first got elected as the leader ...

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