After reading Mr Bill Williams’s letter of February 20, I was filled with a deep shame and immediate desire to renounce my feminism and burn the pink van in the driveway (which is useless until I am old enough to drive anyway).

Obviously, if Mr Williams thinks that the fact that women were (and continue to be) repressed and denied opportunities is a joke, then we should all treat it as such.

I would, however, like to thank him for comparing me to Harriet Harman, a strong-minded, independent woman, who continues to fight for what she believes in.

Ella March Tudor Crescent Swindon