Patricia Hewitt, the uber-feminist Trade Secretary who has been a key player in the Blair government's war against traditional family values, has now donned sackcloth and ashes and confessed what has been blindingly obvious -- that the government has created the perception that all women should have jobs and made stay-at-home mothers feel worthless. Key quote:

'If I look back over the last six years I do think that we have given the impression that we think all mothers should be out to work, preferably full time as soon as their children are a few months old,' she said.

'We have got to move to a position where as a society and as a Government we recognise and we value the unpaid work that people do within their families. That's mothers but also fathers and people looking after elderly relatives or people with disabilities.'

This from a government that has done everything possible to undermine women's traditional family role. Whatever next, Patricia -- all men are not rapists?

Posted by melanie at October 15, 2003