As Katherine Zoepf points out in her book Excellent Daughters, the Saudi guardianship system, which requires an adult woman to get permission from her guardian before travelling overseas or seeking medical care, gives Saudi women the legal status of a minor and can mean that the male with responsibility over her could be her own adolescent son.

More than half of the world’s women are effectively still living in Jane Austen’s time. Men jealously guard their virginity and a girl reading books is regarded as bad for her eyes and even worse for her marriage prospects.

Misogynistic religions and cultures are to blame for such painful backwardness. Time, education and watching American shows on Netflix are the only cure.

Here, by contrast, many women are, as Gloria Steinem says, “becoming the men we wanted to marry”. Now, that really is worth celebrating. Yet, given the opportunity to combat the spread of Sharia law in the UK, embarrassed feminists forget their IWD banners and look the other way.