THE rate of social progress for women occurs at a glacial pace in some sectors of modern, enlightened Scotland. In Glasgow a century after Mary Barbour and her army staged their rent strike another band of working class women are still fighting exploitation and inequality. Mrs Barbour and her women faced down city landlords who sought to exploit the absence of men fighting in the First World War. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17010993.kevin-mckenna-leader-of-glasgow-city-council-needs-to-show-officials-she-is-real-boss/