ONCE again women are waffling on about how hard done by they are because they think that they are an unpaid this and unpaid that.

Has it ever occurred to these whingers that when they got married they entered into a partnership with their husband and as such each had their own jobs to to?

Neither actually gets paid for doing any of the dozen of jobs needed to provide and care for a home and family. If you have a wife and a mother you also have a husband and father who needs to be an administrator, chauffeur, teacher, mechanic, plumber, electrician, carpenter, painter etc.

If the husband goes out to work he relies on his wife to take care of things back home. While he is at work he cannot do anything in the home. The wife, in turn, relies on him to earn money to provide for the family.

The wife at home can, if she chooses to, sit down and and watch the soaps or Wimbledon on TV during the day. He, at work, cannot. Is it a coincidence that the majority of programmes on TV during the day are aimed at women?

In any case men or women can still only do one job at a time or have I missed a trick or two where a wife can actually vacuum the living room and make the beds at the same time, whilst changing a nappy and going to the shops? "Jack of all trades, master of none"?

So Violet Harper-Wilkinson (Citizen 13/6) instead of driving a wedge between couples how about promoting team work instead?

Finally, if it is women who claim all the credit for bringing up a family, then who do we blame for all the juvenile crime, vandalism and misbehaviour of children?

Mr J Buckley

Ulverston Close

Blackburn

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