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Who makes up your household? 

We are four. My husband, my two daughters and me.

How do you share domestic chores? Who does the shopping, cooks and cleans?

Both my husband and I work full time and then some. So we depend on quite a lot of help. Both my father and my husband’s father collect and look after our children every week, and my father also sometimes cooks. Otherwise our lives would fall apart. We pay for a cleaner.

Who does most at home – you or your husband?

Right now it is me who does the least, but it wasn’t always like that. We are not running a miniature tyranni but try to make room for all four of us to realise our dreams. That to me is gender equality.

Do you encounter equality challenges in your own life?

I see them every day. When I open a newspaper or fetch my daughter from nursery and she is playing in the dolls’ corner because the boys are occupying the pirate corner, and when the girls in my eldest daughter’s school class get to bake on their theme day while the boys go fishing. I was myself labelled as a female entrepreneur, as a young woman politician and as a child. I liked wild games and was called a tomboy.