Most importantly, the old chestnut of the pay gap – one of the central targets of feminism – still persists. Sure, in 2012 the Office for National Statistics found that women aged 22 to 29 in full-time employment earned a colossal 2.9pc more than their male counterparts, but that’s a sledgehammer applied to a delicate issue. For one, the figure fails to account for the fact that many, many more women than men are in part-time employment. It fades even more when you factor in the ongoing disparity in lifetime earnings, or in compensation packages in the professions (women earn on average £8,000 less than a man in law, £14,000 less as a chief executive and £9,000 less as a doctor).