Joyce Fegan: How does a woman in power really make you feel?

Be it young, dancing female prime ministers, high-profile, well-paid female broadcasters, or prolific producers of top-quality entertainment, there are some of us who are comfortable with women and power, and there are some of us who are not.

Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin was reduced to tears after her private dancing was made public this week. Only her tears came at a public lectern, where she stood to defend moving her body in sync to melody and rhythm. Photo: Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP

Brian Friel had his women dance: There are the five unmarried Mundy sisters of Dancing at Lughnasa and there is the clinically blind Molly of Molly Sweeney. None of these women had any business dancing; they were neither eligible maidens nor had they great cause to celebrate, but dance they did.

He has the five women of 1936 Ireland dancing out of rhythm to their untrustworthy Marconi radio, moving in circle, in part headlock, part rugby scrum. Legs fly, breath is fast, there is “defiance” and there is “aggression”.