"I was told all the things I couldn't do ... That's never gone down well with me."
Wendy McCarthy was in her mid twenties when she had her first foray into political lobbying — and she had a very tangible stake in the cause.
It was 1968, McCarthy was pregnant with her first child and she was determined to have her husband, Gordon, present at the birth.
But McCarthy had been told by hospital staff that "those men, they'll faint, there's no value at all in them being there".
"It was so enraging," she tells ABC RN's Life Matters.
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