"Editress" is a word I have never seen before!

Gobsmacked at the advice for the young mother who sounds knackered and at the end of her tether - her husband needs to be babied too, poor soul.

I wish there was some way of getting updates on all these ancient problems.

I wish we could revisit these as well, especially the poor young women who fell pregnant and had to endure a finger-wagging lecture from this old hag. As if they didn't have enough problems!

"I expect there are quite a few nappies flapping around..." A woman I worked with told me that she had to run round the house and pull down all the airing nappies before her husband came home from work in case he *saw them*.

I think we should lock any young woman who slags off feminism in a room and make them read this stuff until they cry. Every time I encounter an anecdote like this, I breathe a sigh of relief that I was born when I was. However, I did have a father who wouldn't really have called himself a feminist or liberal, but he was the one who inspired me to achieve things: my mum had scarily low expectations of me, presumably reflecting her own childhood, sadly. The more I read these magazines, the more I realise that my parents were slightly ahead of the curve with their partnership of a marriage, even though they wouldn't have thought so.