Other makers had ladies employed on rod whipping so I'm sure that Ted wasn't saying they couldn't do the job, rather that he was speaking honestly about his personal experience that no girl who had attempted it had met his own exacting standards.
My post was not intended to imply that Ted was a misogynist, it was simply to spread the wry smile that it gave me to think of the fatwa that the equality Taliban would declare on him if he said the same today.
Troutbeck
