Thanks all for the positive replies. I am not too proud to admit that sometimes I come across as an old dinosaur but so be it! I will pick this poisoned chalice up and carry it to the end. I left in 2015 so I am fighting a rearguard action against ‘progress’.
Of course I had the occasional female boss in the SH and J2 world, but those who got there, got there mainly without positive discrimination.
I have 3 teenage sons, and have just learned from them that at our school in Sussex there are no more places for them on a local engineering work experience scheme at a local employer, administered by the school, as the school wants more girls to make up the quota. Progress? You decide.