Whether this was an intentional act of bias or a genuine mistake is as murky a question as it is irrelevant. For centuries history books have been written by men, research has been conducted by men interviewing other men and talking about what men have done. In a list of 25 best-selling history books of 2014 only two were written by women.

This leads to fewer biographies and academic works being based on the influence of powerful female figures, which in turn means that young women encounter fewer role models to look up to, and are less likely to pursue careers in politics, science or sport, for example. When the UK Government threatens to remove feminism from the A-level politics syllabus (but is forced the backtrack) it becomes blindingly clear that we’ve got a problem with female representation in history.

Why, then, are we not jumping at the chance to fix the gender imbalance where we can: in the most widely-read, accessible and culturally ingrained information distributor out there? Why are so few women editing Wikipedia?