Choosing figures from the past who can collectively represent our country is a very difficult thing,but not so difficult as to allow for selecting only two women against seven men for the “Creative United Kingdom” passport (Report, 4 November). There is a wealth of creative women to choose from; writers alone include Jane Austen, and George Eliot,Virginia Woolf, Charlotte, or Emily and Anne Brontë,Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley,Daphne du Maurier, Doris Lessing, or Beatrix Potter,JK Rowling, and Agatha Christie. And what about other fields such, and as medicine? What about Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson?Full representation is virtually impossible but striking a gender balance in this case has no obstacles and it would be ridiculous to claim otherwise.
Gabriel Osborne
BristolContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com