A Yellow Equality

There are 650 Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom, of whom 143 are women, less than a quarter.
Thirty-five yeas ago, after the 1979 election that saw Mrs Thatcher become the United Kingdom's first and only woman Prime Minister, there were a mere 19 women MPs.
So in the past 35 years there has been a considerable increase in the number of women MPs.
Yet back in the 1970s the percentage of the national wealth owned by the top 1% was much lower than it is now, as was the disparity in earnings between the highest and the lowest paid (we are back to 1918 levels now). In the 1970s we were more equal than ever before, they couldn't hang you anymore, you could be as offensive as you liked, slap and tickle was everywhere, and you could go swimming without wearing wellies.
In 1979, 98 of the 635 MPs were former manual workers, whereas in 2014, a mere 25 out of 650 MPs were once horny handed sons or daughters of toil.
So what does equality mean, when there is ever more inequality in terms of wealth and power?
Everyday we are told that the State is introducing increasing equality, - for gays, for women, for blacks, for  badgers, for the whole gamut of persecuted and aggrieved. Yet, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, and the powerful are getting stronger and the powerless are getting weaker.
Poor women, it seems, are to identify with other women of greater social and material standing. The maid is to celebrate her mistress's achievements.
She is to be glad that she is now equal with her husband, that he no longer earns a 'living wage', a wage that can support a family, and that he, like she, now earns only pin money.
The Vichy Feminists want the poor woman to cheer on her betters, while sneering at her lover, her brother, her husband, her father, her son, who shares in her misery.
Vichy Feminists ask the poor woman to identify with vertical power structures while treating men of her own class as her enemy.
In 2014, of 650 MPs, only 25 have ever been manual workers.
Yet I have heard no calls for all manual worker shortlists of election candidates, nor calls for a 50% of MPs to be manual workers.
Now that really would be revolutionary, which is why the Feminists aren't interested.