Writer also said anorexia was for 'girls who don't want to grow up'

She claimed it is 'significant' Caitlyn Jenner is 'speaking with man's voice'

The 84-year-old said that 'women have it better than men' nowadays

Best-selling author Fay Weldon has caused controversy after suggesting that men are being driven to sex change because 'women have it better than men'.

The 84-year-old, who lives in Dorset, also said anorexia was for 'girls who don’t want to grow up' and 'have periods', claiming that for many 'sex is disgusting'.

It comes after fellow writer Ian McEwan sparked a row on Thursday after warning of a 'troubling' wave of political correctness when discussing the rights of transgender people.

Best-selling author Fay Weldon has caused controversy after suggesting that men are being driven to sex change because 'women have it better than men'

Speaking last week, he said: 'Call me old-fashioned, but I tend to think of people with penises as men.'

In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms Weldon said: 'The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.

But she also suggested it was significant that transgender star Caitlyn Jenner 'didn’t have his voice altered'.

She also suggested it was significant that Caitlyn Jenner is 'speaking with man's voice'

'He’s still speaking with a man’s voice. Which I think is very significant.', she said.

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil author went on to claim that men did more work than women.

'Men invent things: if this were an all-woman society, we wouldn’t have television.

'We’d have lots of nice cushions,' she said.

Veteran broadcaster Joan Bakewell also caused controversy last month after suggesting anorexia in modern society was a sign of 'narcissism'.

She said: 'They do not have anorexia in the camps in Syria.

'To be unhappy because you are the wrong weight is a sign of the overindulgence of our society, over-introspection, narcissism, really.'

The baroness later apologised for the remarks, saying the comments were made 'off the cuff'.

'I was enormously surprised because I thought I was having an off-the-record conversation with a journalist so my off-the-cuff remarks were very casual and not thought through,' she said.

'If I'd been asked to make a public statement or write an article, of course I would have found out a great deal more.