Over the years she has attracted respect and revulsion in equal measure for her initiatives and her refusal to bend her opinions to the wind of public opinion.
Robin Wright may be making public her demand for equal pay for her role in House of Cards, but that is all right for her; she is a white, privileged film star.
"Everyone I've spoken to says she very much sees it as a Deng-Murdoch dynasty and will want equal rights for her children and who can blame her?" said the source.
Garnering praise in equal measure for her appearances on film, TV and stage (she was nominated for an Ian Charleson award for her Cordelia in Richard Eyre's King Lear and for an Olivier for Howard Davies's Collected Stories), she has an astonishing ability to slip from one role to the next almost unrecognisably.
While the euro crisis played a minimal role in the election campaign, it is likely to take on a prominent role now that Merkel, praised and criticised in equal measure for her handling of it, has been endorsed for a third four-year term.
While the issue of the euro crisis played a minimal role in the election campaign, it is likely to take on more of a prominent role now that Merkel, praised and criticised in equal measure for her handling of the crisis, has been endorsed for a third four-year term.
Rice is a famous figure, known in almost equal parts for her ferocious intelligence, and controversial role in the Bush administration, which included comments on alleged weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was thought at the time to possess.
In 1950, Ruby makes her escape to New York, "where Colored girls and White pretended to be equal", to look for her mother.
More substantively, her decision to return to work just days after giving birth prompted international debate about maternity rights; she was in equal measure praised for her commitment and damned for undermining workplace rights.
As do loyal News Corp colleagues and the four children from his first two marriages who never warmed to Deng or her "equal shares" demand for her own two Murdoch daughters.
