The cost-of-living crisis emerges as yet another pressing challenge disproportionately affecting women. Like the pandemic, it serves to amplify the entrenched structural disparities experienced by women, rendering them vulnerable to its impacts. This jeopardises progress in advancing economic and social equality for women and sending it into reverse.

For International Women’s Day 2024, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Young Academy of Scotland brings a panel of experts from academia and practice to dissect this challenging topic. They will explore the historical context of systematic inequalities that persist today and some solutions required to address the imbalance, from workplaces to the law.

This panel discussion reflects on the challenges of Scottish devolution and the relationship with the rest of the UK.

Issues surrounding Scotland’s constitutional future continue to dominate and polarise Scottish politics and political debate. But the contested nature of the process – and especially the question of whether or not there could or should be an independence referendum – has crowded out meaningful discussion of the challenges facing devolution and Scotland’s relationship with the rest of the UK.

• Professor Michael Keating FRSE
  General Secretary, RSE
• Professor Ailsa Henderson FRSE
  Professor of Political Science, University of Edinburgh
• Jess Sargeant
  Senior Researcher, Institute for Government
• Dr Philip Rycrof FRSE
  Former senior Cabinet Office official

Eve Poole, Chief Executive of the RSE, is in conversation with one of the world’s best-known crime writers and creator of Edinburgh’s local Inspector Rebus. He shares stories using objects from his life as we explore the curious mind of Ian Rankin.

Speakers

• Sir Ian Rankin FRSE, author
• Dr Eve Poole, Interim CEO, Royal Society of Edinburgh

About Curious

Calling all curious minds! You are invited to Curious, the RSE’s summer events programme. Take part in a series of free, online, and in-person talks, group discussions and outdoor activities on key contemporary topics and ground-breaking ideas with some of Scotland’s leading thinkers.
https://www.rse-curious.com

About RSE

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy, is an educational charity operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis to provide public benefit throughout Scotland.
https://www.rse.org.uk/

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