15 April 2025, 14:52

By Susan Smith

Tomorrow marks the culmination of a five year legal fight when the Supreme Court decides the definition of “woman” - not in a biological sense of course, but how the word is defined in equality law in the UK.

It is almost incomprehensible that women - mostly volunteers - have had to expend so much time, energy, and money on something that is obvious to toddlers.

This began in 2018, when the Scottish Government passed the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act, a piece of legislation designed to ensure equal representation for women on these boards. However, the definition of just who or what a woman is in this piece of law relied on self-identification: women, it seemed, were nothing more to the Scottish Government than an electricity bill or a........

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