I HAD to take time out from my 'domestic comforts' to reply to H Hamer (LET, March 27) regarding women who don't work.

Why is H Hamer so concerned that women are to get extra help in getting back to work?

Would H Hamer still have the same opinion if the money were given to men?

Many women would not be single if their partners had the backbones to stand by their families. Instead men choose to leave without a thought for anyone but themselves, leaving women to bring children up on their own.

Many are victims of abuse of one kind or another and there could be any number of reasons why some women don't work.

As for the narrow-minded statement that 'many women in Blackburn don't want to work and get pregnant so they don't have to' how does this person know this? Have they conducted some sort of survey?

Many woman single or married, working or not make large contributions to the running of this country, most of which goes unrecognised. (Women are still paid a lot less than men despite equal opportunities.)

May be he/she should be writing to his/her 'gender buddies' in Whitehall and ask them why this extra money is being given to the fairer sex of Blackburn.

J WARING (Ms), Gordon Street, Darwen.