Scotland puts a woman on new £5 note

London: Congratulations are in order to the nation of Scotland, which has just decided that novelist and poet Nan Shepherd will be featured on the next Bank of Scotland £5 note.

It was said that women only feature on nine per cent of the world’s paper currency — and Queen Elizabeth II features on 74 of the 120 bills, Independent reported.Shepherd will bring the number of women to appear on paper money worldwide up to a grand total of 47 when the note comes into circulation by the end of 2016.