Please excuse the spoof headline. All three of the ‘great offices of state’ are held by women – Rachel from Accounts at the Treasury, Yvette Balls at the Foreign Office (has there ever been such a low-profile holder of the post?) and Shabana Mahmood at the Home Office.

The government is clearly in need of more women in senior positions. Antonia Romeo is expected to be appointed as head of the civil service shortly, and thereby become the Cabinet Secretary. From her Wiki page:

“As the Civil Service’s Gender Champion, one of Romeo’s first roles was to set up the Gender Equality Leadership Group, a group of director general level gender champions from all departments.”

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