When it comes to women being put in harm’s way, it sometimes feels as if men think they’re at the court of King Arthur, bound by some long-forgotten code of chivalry. You saw it with the deaths of the two police officers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes in Manchester in September. There were questions about why they hadn’t been accompanied on the call-out by a man, and one of their colleagues referred to them as “two young girls”.