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TOO many men feature in a new British passport design that showcases the country’s cultural heritage, MPs said yesterday.
Only two women — the first computer programmer Ada Lovelace and architect Elisabeth Scott — feature in the designs, which will be phased in from December.
Labour MP Emily Thornberry tweeted: “Here we go again — new UK #passport has 7 men featured and just 2 women.”
MP Stella Creasy suggested that women including artist Barbara Hepworth and writers Virginia Woolf and Beatrix Potter should have been included.
“Instead of being celebrated and remembered, great British women are being airbrushed out of history,” said gender equality group the Fawcett Society chief executive Sam Smethers.
The Passport Office said: “It wasn’t something where we said: ‘Let’s set out to only have two women’.”
