iOS app Android app  Dawn Elson   Are Women Selling Themselves
Short?  Posted: 02/05/2013 00:00  Last week the Bank of England
Governor, Sir Mervyn King, announced that Sir Winston Churchill
will appear on our £5 note from 2016. Whilst there are few
people who would dispute that Churchill is an excellent choice;
there is an unfortunate consequence of this new selection.
Churchill will replace Elizabeth Fry and therefore leave us with
no female representation on our currency. In fact, there has
only been one other female, Florence Nightingale, on any of our
banknotes previously. So is there a danger the population might
believe that there are no women who are worthy of such
recognition? There are actually 20 women on the list of names
suggested by the public for use on banknotes; but on a list of
over 150 names the ratio of publicly considered noteworthy women
to men is still disappointingly low.  Is this a true reflection
of the number of women that meet the Bank of England's selection
criteria of having made