Women should work together for society

Your columnist Victoria White ‘stands by her Irish men’ and queries the existence of the National Women’s Council (October 11 p12).

In her opinion, NWCI and feminism in general have successfully reached ‘nearly every goal of the 1970s’ so can therefore just close the shop.

Instead she suggests a National Men’s Council to support men who have lost their jobs and are bearing the brunt of the recession.