My mouth hit the floor when I read Hung Man-wo's letter about women and how they should stay at home (South China Morning Post, September 4). Women may well have been 'honoured with the twin tasks of raising children and maintaining a clean and comfortable home', but I am sure 100 years ago, or less even, Mr Hung would have happily watched his wife toil in the fields whilst sitting doing nothing. As to Mr Hung's reference to 'more capable male counterparts', I am interested to know how many female politicians have been involved in sex scandals, or found naked and tied up with plastic bags over their heads? Intellectual capability, the desire to achieve and the will to work hard is not a gender related issue. Male chauvinism has always been, in my mind, a result of insecurity. If you know you are better, prove it on the battlefield rather than whingeing in the letters pages. I pity Mr Hung. He should learn that a partnership is about sharing not taking for granted. May the women of this world please note that not all men suffer from a superiority complex. Oh, and Mr Hung, just what would you do if your bus driver was a woman? PHIL INGRAM Discovery Bay
