This is supposed to be an enlightened age, but you wouldn’t think so if you could hear what the average men think of the average women. Women (1) their independence years ago. After a long, bitter (2) , they now enjoy the same educational (3) as men in most parts of the world. They (4) repeatedly that they are equal and often (5) to men in almost every field. The hard-fought battle for (6) has been won, but it is by no means over. It is men, not women who (7) carry on the sex war because their attitude (8) basically hostile. Even in the most (9) societies, women continue to be regarded as second-sate citizens. To hear some men talk, you’d think that women (10) a different species. On the surface, the (11) made by men about women’s abilities seem light-hearted. The same tired jokes about women drivers are repeated day in day (12) . This apparent light-heartiness does not (13) the real contempt that men feel for women. (14) much men sneer at women, their claims to superiority are not (15) by statistics. We all know that women cause far (16) accidents than men. They are too conscientious and (17) to drive like menaces. But this is a minor quibble. Women have succeeded in any (18) you care to name. As politicians, soldiers, doctors, bus-conductors, scientists and presidents of countries they have often put men to (19) . And we must remember that they frequently succeed brilliantly in all these fields in addition to (20) and rearing children.