Airports treat businesswomen unfairly

I hesitated to use the word discriminate, partly because the term is already hackneyed, but mostly to not offend the airlines and airport security officials who are, I believe, unaware of the unfairness of their safety regulations.

Here's how it works for a woman travelling for business:
There are 2 pieces of luggage every business traveller uses every time they travel: a laptop bag (which I hope my iPad will eventually eliminate) and a carry on - which no seasoned business traveller would ever consider checking.  That's all you're allowed through security and on the plane - 2 pieces of luggage.  The problem is that businesswomen, like myself,  also carry a purse.  I have dozens; love them; have no intention of giving them up.

Do you know what they ask female business travellers to do with their purses?  They make us put them in our laptop bags (impossible) or in our carry on luggage (impractical).

So after I've passed through security, with my purse in my carry on, I have 3 choices:

1. take my purse out until i board the plane, where they will make me put it back in my carry on
2. open my carry on in public to retrieve my wallet so that I can pay for my Timmies coffee
3. take my wallet out of my purse, store it somewhere I normally wouldn't and hope like hell i don't lose it before it can go back in my purse where it belongs

but there are other options

• put my laptop in my carry on - also impractical
• get a really big laptop bag and stuff my purse contents in it (verging on ridiculous)
• give up my purses altogether and opt for a man's wallet which I would carry in my back pocket
• insist men carry purses so that the regulation will be changed.

 but that's just from my vantage point  :)