From Kate Irvine
You report that women are better than men at finding food stalls (1 September, p 21). The reason may be found in the message emblazoned across girls’ T-shirts in my local Tesco store: “Born to shop”. No wonder we are still struggling to increase numbers of women in science, technology and engineering, when the UK’s largest supermarket cannot find a better aspiration for half our younger population than mindless consumerism. I may have to start my own lines: “Born to save lives”, “Born to end war”, “Born to solve global warming”…
Backwell, Somerset, UK
