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Women are still sold short by patriarchy ; I write in response to Mary Timball's letter "Why this craze to defeminise women?" (June 17). Feminists do not always agree among ourselves and do not all share the same outlook.

I write in response to Mary Timball's letter "Why this craze to defeminise women?" (June 17). Feminists do not always agree among ourselves and do not all share the same outlook.

Mrs Timball refers to such things as using the title "guys" for both men and women, the adoption of men's-style clothing by young women, giving daughters traditionally boys' names, and the preferential use of unisex toilets. But such gestures avoid the basic problem and even exacerbate it by suggesting - as Mrs Timball points out - that women are only equal to men if we ape them.

As I see it, a deep institutionalised imbalance has developed between men and women under the centuries-old patriarchal system upheld by ...

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