Stay-at-home wives: TD ignorant or sexist?

I WAS shocked by Deputy Leo Varadkar’s derogatory comments in the Dáil (January 28) about “stay at home wives”. According to him, they spend the “day on the golf course or eating lunch, or whatever”.

Clearly, Deputy Varadkar doesn’t realise that for many women, being a wife and a mother is a full-time job. Looking after children and a household can be every bit as demanding as working in an office or indeed in the Dáil. Deputy Varadkar’s view of stay-at-home wives as ladies who lunch is ignorant at best and sexist at worst.

Jane Dignam