As things stand, there are very few things that women really need men for these days; they need us to have children, they need us to blame for everything, and they need us to remove spiders from the bath. That's it, I think.

Now there's the prospect that they won't need us for the first of these in the future - two mothers, no father. So, let's hope that science doesn't come up with replacements for us on the other two fronts, eh?