Dear Sir... Readers' Views (22/10/16)

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A homemaker is a ‘working mother’

At the age of 66, I am a feminist and always have been. When I was young, I noted that women’s social, economic, and political freedoms were limited. I also noted that women’s work within the home, instead of being rewarded and respected, was used to disenfranchise and silence them. Married women were chattels. Their husbands had a quasi-proprietorial right over them.