Asked about the influence of her husband, Cooper brushed off the question, saying the suffragettes had fought for the right to think differently from their spouses and there were "echoes" of that way of thinking.
"This change has righted a wrong in the tax system which was the source of deep frustration and additional cost for surviving spouses," he said.
The last election blatantly sidelined women as mere spouses and then went on to produce a government that actively pushed back women's rights and pushed down women's incomes.
And a key area for cost- cutting is what benefits they offer spouses and partners of their employees.
They're simply stretching existing policies – they don't offer some benefits to domestic partners, but only to spouses – to cover a new group.
Contrary to some reports, the lifelong "gold travel pass" for former politicians has not been abolished but rather just trimmed – with spouses no longer eligible for free travel and some restrictions on the number of trips that can be claimed.
The fortunes of leaders are not bound up with respect for their spouses.
Now, if smart watches could remind children to tidy their rooms, or tell spouses when to take the bins out, with smartphones disabled until the task is complete, Google might just have a killer app.
With the imposition of Euro-American marriage laws, same-sex marriages between two-spirit people and their spouses were no longer legally recognised.
The ceremony lasted slightly less time, but by the end of it most of the predicted winners had thanked their parents, spouses and visionary producers, and headed off for the far more testing task of getting past security and into the post-Oscar parties in Beverly Hills.
They've never been called unclean and sent to huts and baths outside their homes and villages, away from kitchens, in case they turned the bacon rancid, tainted their spouses, repelled fish and game, polluted the air and young hunters, affected the weather negatively with their gaze, bled uncontrollably, stank and became wild and dangerous.
