Meet the women who are fighting sexist DIY myths

Almost half of all women now say they enjoy DIY, but with some hardware stores still bastions of old-fashioned sexism, has the DIY trade cottoned on to the changing times? Ellie O’Byrne meets the sisters who are DIYing for themselves.

Meet the women who are fighting sexist DIY myths

Almost half of all women now say they enjoy DIY, but with some hardware stores still bastions of old-fashioned sexism, has the DIY trade cottoned on to the changing times? Ellie O’Byrne meets the sisters who are DIYing for themselves.

As a single mother, you have to take on a whole range of the invariably unglamorous and thankless jobs that have traditionally fallen on the male side of the gender divide in household duties.

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