Where are the female voices?
I ALWAYS enjoy the letters page of The Herald on Sunday, but today I note that there is not one single letter from a woman.
What on Earth is going on? Do you not receive any letters from women? Or, having received them, are the contents not considered sufficiently weighty or worthy for publication? Does the current crop of issues of debate in the letters (or indeed in the newspaper itself) not interest women?
However, it does have to be observed that the vast majority of the “heavyweight” commentary and analysis in the paper is by men, with the women writers getting a couple of pages between them, usually with fairly lightweight subject matter. Perhaps the problem starts there, but I am sure there