Here are some insights from Libby Brooks, Scottish reporter for The Guardian “Why Scotland’s Women are Swinging Towards YES in Independence Vote”, interviews with female voters – click on link below : working class and Labour voters moving strongly to YES in last weeks; women seeking out information for themselves beyond the soundbites and headlines; positive female advocate in Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon engaging and convincing women beyond supporters of her political party. Note that voting is not compulsory but that women are planning to vote for the first time and have been strongly engaged in the campaign.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
