First, Carol Ann Duffy is the first woman to be named as Britain’s poet laureate which is truly wonderful.
And second (perhaps with slightly less national significance, but I found it very pleasing) BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ yesterday was on astrophysics, and two of the three experts were women: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, pioneer of radio astronomy and currently visiting professor of astrophysics at Oxford University, and Ruth Gregory, professor of theoretical physics at Durham University.
Hurrahs all round, I say!