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WE DON’T need a leaked recording of John Humphrys belittling women prior to broadcasting live on Radio 4 to make the point – we women get it in our lugholes eight days a week. Take last week, when the man I’d employed to clean my carpets and left to get on with it called me. ‘Mrs Jones,’ he began. (Grrrr!!) ‘I thought you’d wait while I did it, so you could pay me cash as I leave.’ ‘I’m not a 1950s housewife,’ I replied. ‘If I had time to wait, I’d clean them myself.’ ‘Well, where’ve you gone? To get your nails done?’ You see? Even men who hoover for a living think they’re above us...