I'm a woman in my prime, well I like to think so, and I have decided not to have children.

There, I've said it. I've given up the joys of motherhood and all the delights that come with rearing children. I will go through life without the pleasures of picking up my kids from school, watching them ruin the living room carpet with chocolate and listening to their delightful screams as they run around my garden.

Trouble is, I've also given up having six months off work with my feet up, child benefit to squander on magazines and the ability to park closer to the doors at Tesco.

Off I trot to work, hampered by all the yummy mummies clogging up the roads, with just a few precious weeks of annual leave a year to look forward to. I look at the tax deducted from my payslip, the Government handing out more cash for families so they can blow it on satellite television. I see women parade their babies around the office when they "pop in" during their maternity leave and I see others knocking off early so they can pick their kids up from school.

While I'm at work turning the wheels of industry, all these other women are turning on their tellys and watching Fern and Phil. I'm up to my eyes in spreadsheets whilst all they have to do is plump a duvet.

So what this woman wants is a new EU law passed that allows working women the chance to opt out and have six months paid holiday once every five years I don't want to be greedy or a tax rebate so we can afford to book a package holiday during half term!

There are thousands of us, we may be unable to have children, we may be gay, we may choose not to give birth, but we'd all like equality.