Last Sunday (21 August), BBC1′s “Sunday Morning Live” asked the hackles-raising question: “Should women take a back seat in difficult economic times?”

The premise seemed to be that a job and an independent income is properly a man’s thing, and that we can indulge women with an imagined independence while the economy is buoyant, but when the going gets tough, we should keep jobs for the boys.

Women should stay home, rearing children into good little citizens who will know their place (and perhaps not riot).

Oh dear.

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