Passéport

The BBC describes a sexism row over the new British passport that is populated by seven British men and only two British women and those two inextricably linked to the men - Elisabeth Scott, architect of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford; and Ada Lovelace, next to Charles Babbage, on whose proto-computer she worked.  Two female Labour politicians have criticised the design plus the gender equality group, the Fawcett Society.
Sexism is a bugbear of every society but to kick up a stink about pages of a passport really are 'First World' problems, even if the passport grants passage far beyond that.  There are dozens and dozens of famous women who have hailed from these isles but there are hundreds and hundreds of men who have achieved distinction.  Of course, this gender imbalance is created almost solely by the patriarchal conditions that prevailed, keeping plenty of females from full accomplishment and realisation of their talents.  Regrettable as that is, it remains a fact and to have four men and four women (with Shakespeare as the motif throughout) would be historical revisionism of, if not the worst kind, at least a false tendency.  But as I said, if there are no bigger problems than this facing society, then we are on easy street (which for the majority of us we are not).