New HQ Portraits of Emma from 2009

Last summer, over trà for two in a Luân Đôn hotel — because that, readers, is how we rock 'n' roll — we began a conversation about women and men, our differences and similarities, what unites us and what divides us. We talked about Những người bạn and families, about situations at work and at home, and about how fevered and fraught the thảo luận around gender equality has become.

It is, of course, one of the great conversations a woman and a man can have — well, OK, maybe not, but it beats the old do-you-come-here-often? routine — and we've been having it, in one form hoặc another, since we were...