Re ‘Mums rock' (The Weekend Sun, October 26). Such a condescending article loaded with back-handed compliments.

I find total ignorance in the comment "I still can't work out why women want to be like men."

G Martin assumes the only reason a woman would want a career is to be like a man.

Have they considered women have careers because they like to contribute to society? Perhaps they desire the satisfaction of problem-solving, performing, creating, caring, communicating, teaching, and innovating.

Narrow-minded individuals must accept that women can be both great mothers and career-orientated, contributing members of society. Who made the rule that it has to be one or the other? A man?

To address the comment "All the women with any brains send their men out to make a living”. Does that imply only stupid women work? Wow.

The biggest missing ingredient in our culture is not good mums. It is a lack of basic values, brought about by substance abuse, poverty, neglect, and increased levels of domestic violence, and fuelled by ignorant individuals who have low expectations of members of society based on their gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.

I work full-time, run my own business and I'm a great mother.

J Mackay, Maungatapu (Abridged).