How to marry a billionaire

A new website claims it can help women to bag a rich husband, but if we all get on our bikes, we might find something far more valuable ✤ It is not often that one is delivered a press release quite so dispiriting as last week’s little number for a flight comparison site that had thoughtfully “mapped out exactly where to find the world’s richest people in order for women to know where to bag a billionaire”. If you can hear a distant thud, don’t worry, it is only me bashing my head against my desk. Said website apparently pooled the recent Forbes Billionaire List and a map , to produce every woman’s indispensable guide to hunting down a rich husband (if that’s not attractive, I don’t know what is). The site notched up a second achievement in perpetuating the myth that women are all secretly witchy little gold-diggers. Well done guys! Quite what Christy Walton or Liliane Bettencourt make of it I’m not sure, but for those of you trying to bag a female billionaire, I believe easyJet has a special offer on flights past the glass ceiling. ✤ We chanced across a rather fascinating new book this week, Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom by Sue Macy, which looks at how the success of the bike in late 19th-century America heralded a period of new liberation for women. Our favourite excerpt sees Macy quoting the great Elizabeth Cady Stanton , an early proponent of the contraption: “The bicycle,” she stated, “will inspire women with more courage, self-respect and self-reliance and make the next generation more vigorous of mind and body; for feeble mothers do not produce great statesmen, scientists and scholars.” And billionaires, naturally. ✤ I have been delighted by news of a man who has Julia Roberts’s face tattooed all over his body . Eighty-two tattoos in total, and all inspired by scenes from Erin Brockovich. I can’t help but feel this places a question mark over last week’s revelation that women are better at stalking . Do any of you have 83 tattoos of John Cusack? Been liberated by a bicycle? Do share. Women Rich lists Cycling Laura Barton guardian.co.uk

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