In 1978, when I completed my Oxford law degree, we were told we would have to be patient, it could take 30 or 40 years before there was gender equality among the judiciary. I thought (perhaps naively) that was not unreasonable – after all, women had only just started entering the profession in significant numbers. How depressing to be told now by a justice of the supreme court that it could take another 50 years (Judge: you’ve got to be patient on gender equality, 23 September). And, to add insult to injury, not only is it the lifestyle choices of my generation of women – rather than the maintenance of male privilege – that is to blame, but also, if we are not patient we could do “appalling” harm to British justice.

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