Nicholas C Sault (Letters, April 10) says the Bible’s injunction to women
that ‘thy husband shall rule over thee’ condemned women to subjugation and lost
opportunity. He neglects to mention the other side of the equation - which
established precisely that gender equality he seems to think we recently
invented - that her husband should toil and sweat all the days of his life. Or
that this unhappy arrangement was a consequence of husband and wife both
deciding that rather than follow God’s design, they’d do their own thing.
Thousands of years on we’re still doing it, and look where it’s got us.
Julia du Fresne
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