In Other News…

• Ulster Bank, one of Northern Ireland’s three note issuing banks, has unveiled the design of its new vertically-orientated £50, which is inspired by the women of the province and is being printed on polymer.

The front of the note honours astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s discovery of pulsars, for which she won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974. The back features ‘Millies’, the women who were the backbone of the Irish linen industry.

The unveiling of the note coincided with International Women’s Day. It will go into circulation in June.

• The United States Mint has begun shipping the Dr Sally Ride quarter, the second coin of the American Women Quarters (AWQ) Program. Sally Ride, who died in 2012, was a physicist and astronaut, and the first American women in space.

The first coin in the program, honouring the poet, writer and social activist Maya Angelou, was issued in February. The programme will cover five women per year, from 2022 through to 2025.

The other three honorees for 2022 are Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation; Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement; and Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood.

The US Mint has also announced the five honorees for 2023. They include the pilot Bessie Coleman, the first African American to gain an international pilot’s licence; the Mexican American journalist and activist Jovita Idár; the indigenous Hawaiian composer Edith Kanaka‘ole; Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s First Lady and human rights activist; and the Native American ballerina Maria Tallchief.