Seen written on the wall in the women’s toilets at Manchester Polytechnic College of Art: “Women have to work twice as hard as men to get as far. Fortunately, this is not difficult.” It made me smile when I was fuming about hearing in a lecture how Matisse, and no doubt many other famous artists, had his wife mix his colours and clean his palettes for him.
Monica Collantine
I currently work as a secretary to a brigadier in the British Army. When I answer the phone, 95 per cent of the time people assume they have either got the brigadier himself or a wrong number.
Now, if the brigadier was female, the confusion would be complete.
Peter Harris
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Do we still need to define a woman by her marital status — The Times ran an article last week about a woman being chosen for the top job at a boys’ school. “Divorc?e, 53” was the way the headline described this woman who has had a very successful teaching career. I note with interest that this article has been written by a woman.
Susan Martin
What leaves me fuming? Every day at 10am on Radio 4: Woman’s Hour, or better described as Victims’ Hour. Why in 2009 Britain is there a need for this programme when most of the items covered could easily be dealt with in other mainstream programmes where a more balanced, non-sexist policy could be employed?
David Smith
I was at the self-service checkout at Asda the other day when the system froze — as usual. A female assistant approached with a resigned air, saying, as if to a naughty schoolboy: “What have you done now? I think it’s a man thing.”
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Alan Thomas, well over 49-and-a-half, Warrington
Have you seen an example of sexism that has left you fuming? E-mail it, with a picture if relevant, adding where you saw it and why it made you angry, to babewatch@thetimes.co.uk