I AGREE with the main contention of K Thompson’s letter about the right of women to be judged on their merits and not their looks (HAS, July 25) as if they were nothing more than sex objects.
My wife once went out to buy some things for the house and said she would pay by hire purchase agreement and was told that it would require me to go in and sign the form. She demanded to see the manager and he explained it as the usual procedure. Then when he discovered her name he asked whether it was Geoff Bulmer who attended the half-yearly meetings of the Co-operative Society and when she confirmed it was, she was allowed to sign
He had been to the meetings and knew my views on women’s rights. I had let them know that the fact women did not get equal pay in Co-Op shops was scandalous.
I didn’t get much support from fellow co-operators at the time but He knew what I would have said if my wife had not been treated equally
G Bulmer, Billingham.