Mr Davies, the MP who organised today’s debate, has long been recognised for his passionate views on gender equality. Men and women could be equal, he has said, if only it weren’t for “feminist zealots”, and “the politically correct males” who “pander to this nonsense”. At a conference in August for men’s rights activists, he complained that while “we hear plenty about increasing the numbers of women on company boards and female representation in Parliament”, there is “a deafening silence” when it comes to “the number of men who have careers as midwives”.

In today’s debate, he complained about what he called “the part-time gender pay gap”. On average, he said, women in part-time jobs were paid six per cent more than men were – “an issue I’ve never heard mentioned before”.

Yes, it does seem unfair, the way women hog all the juiciest part-time jobs, while men have to make do with the vast majority of high-paid, high-status, full-time jobs.