Whines and moans
Sir: Mr Grundy (21 March) obviously enjoyed . shying at the Aunt Sallies of the street; may one of them be permitted a slight squawk at the feeble disingenuousness of his aim?
'More women's pages . . . to open the sex war on' is a classic non sequitur: women's pages are not self-generating female propa- ganda sheets but the result of deliberate deci- sions by newspaper managements (all men, as
far as I know) to provide some elements of women's interest which is thought, rightly or wrongly, to be otherwise lacking.
If there is a war going on, it is the war for increased circulation and advertising revenue, in which the women's features are handy re- serve troops in times of crisis.
Content, too, is dictated by similar criteria and the amount of space devoted to Women's Rites is usually far more than that given to Women's Wrongs. That the latter are not mythical is surely demonstrated by the two re- ports published last week by the Labour and Conservative parties which between them list fifty-one recommendations for improvement in the status of women.
PS. The Times does have a Men's Page—which is run by the Women's Page and which was started at my instigation.
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