It's all very well broadcasters being required to balance election coverage scrupulously between the parties. What about the genders?
What about using a stop watch to compute the amount of election broadcasting by chaps of chaps? Try comparing that with the exposure of the fairer sex in this election and the measurement would be very skewed indeed.
I am not talking about the oodles of coverage of supportive wives. That in itself is like some weird reversion to the 1950s. What recent election featured endless discussion of dresses, hairstyles, raincoats, handbags? Glenys Kinnock, or even Norma Major, never had to endure this.
What I am talking about is: where are the women who actually open their mouth and express opinions? Women who are democratic representatives in their own right? Are they really just Cameron Cuties - seen and not heard?
And it is not just the politicians. There is a dearth too of high-level presenters and experts. Take the pollsters and pundits who litter our screens these days - the overwhelming number, if not virtually all, are of the same sex.
The highlight of the campaigning week is three chaps in suits, being interviewed by - more chaps in suits; the same on every channel.
I really am not one to winge. However, on this occasion I feel as if I fell asleep in an era when there were gradually more and more women being taken seriously in both politics and punditry, but when I woke up again in spring 2010 it all seemed to have been a mirage.
