Re G Martin's letter (The Weekend Sun, October 26). We ‘working women' are not neglecting ‘motherhood' and we tend to call it ‘parenthood' these days.

It is interesting that you value men for their working ability, but fail to mention their parenting ability. I understand that your bias may be locked in a time warp, but keep it out of the media. I really don't want to have to explain this to my happy, balanced daughters.

But really, attributing the world's ‘grumpiness' to mums? How about poverty, homelessness, family violence, increased cost of living? These prolific circumstances may be a fairer explanation of any exacerbated grumpiness.

G Martin implies a working mother is not a ‘great' mother. I would love to see the evidence. A recent study showed modern parents spend more quality time with their children than parents in the 1960s.

All women have a brain, not just those who 'send their men out to make a living”, and for the record, worker bees are female.

You can have your patronising ‘mums rock' compliments and let them be revealed for the misogynistic comments they really are. Women do not ‘want to be like men'; we want to be who we are and who we could be.

S Stevenson, Mount Maunganui (Abridged).