(c) Insider
From Insider today:
Scotland has kept its place as top of the UK in an index charting representation of women in the workplace. The high representation of women in senior positions helps set Scotland apart in the PwC Women In Work Index, which analyses the representation and welfare of women in the world of work across 33 OECD countries. The UK overall rose one place from 14th to 13th in the index which analysed data for 2017 and was second among the G7 nations behind Canada. Iceland was ranked first, ahead of Sweden and New Zealand. Scotland ranked above the UK average in two of the five metrics and equal in a further two.’
https://www.insider.co.uk/news/scotland-tops-uk-league-women-14087077
This another in a sequence of positive news reports regarding the place of women in Scotland:
Big increase in number of women GPs is excellent news for Scotland
Scotland’s progress on women in work
Economic contribution of Scottish women-owned businesses grows by nearly twice the rate of UK
Abuse of women and the disabled far higher in England than in Scotland
Scottish politics is third best in world for women’s empowerment and well ahead of UK
Scotland first again, again and again: women on public boards?
East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire best places in UK for women to live in
Talking-up Scotland 
Aye, good that there are more women not being restricted to the lower orders. Not quite good enough still, women are mentally on par with men, it doesn’t take physical acumen to sit on your fat arse as CEO of a company so I see no reason why women should not be equally represented at top level jobs, unless, of course, there was some mechanism working against women being equally represented.
Totally not on topic (as usual) – would you host a crossword? If I can get it together to make one up,,, it’s been a while, and it would be cryptic, but I’ve been fancying trying my hand at it again, maybe with a theme. So if I did manage it, would you consider that as something on your blog, or do you think it’s not really with the theme?
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Oh, I should have said, to truly tackle societal attitudes that demand inequalities, I think Scotland first needs independence from the black gangrenous growth of the union – it’s like a weight round our necks, dragging up back to a feudal past. Good that we are pushing past that and trying to make a forward-looking society even while still stifled, small steps and all that.
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