In our politically correct world, it’s usually - quite rightly - considered inappropriate to exclude anyone. But the Glastonbury Festival 2016 has, so far, been mostly about women and female solidarity.

On Thursday this week, it was only women who were invited onto the Park stage to remember and honour the life of murdered MP Jo Cox.

I was one of them and many of us - myself included - wore the green, purple and white ribbons of the Suffragettes. Billy Bragg led the crowd in singing, ‘We shall overcome’, and hundreds of us then marched to ‘The Sisterhood’ – Glastonbury’s first women-only space, opened by Emily Eavis in Cox’s honour.

The venue – which is located in the counter-cultural Shangri-La field and welcomes women and trans women - has caused controversy since it was announced in the run-up to the festival. Announcing it, the venue’s organisers said: "The producers of The Sisterhood believe that women-only spaces are necessary in a world that is still run by and designed to benefit mainly men."

Many were outraged at the idea of excluding an entire gender, seeing it as a retrograde step at odds with Glastonbury’s traditional outlook of acceptance and tolerance.