This isn’t a new phenomenon, either. In 2014, campaign group For Books’ Sake created a petition calling for examination boards to commit to gender equality in GCSE exam specifications.

The petition was launched after significant exam reforms changed the way GCSEs were structured – and For Books’ Sake said that they “had hoped that the boards would take this revision process as an opportunity to make a real, tangible commitment to equality and diversity”.

Instead, after analysing course specifications to work out a gender breakdown of set tests, they found that representation of women was only getting worse.

“With over 500,000 GCSEs students sitting exams annually, the texts set by the exam boards have a huge impact and influence,” they wrote at the time. “It’s becoming more and move heavily skewed towards white men, a demographic with a long-standing tradition of dominating past and present literary heritage, to the exclusion of women writers.”

And 2017’s annual Vida count, which each year analyses gender and racial representation in literature, painted an equally depressing picture of the current state of play. It found that white men still dominate the top jobs in literary criticism – leaving women and people of colour on the sidelines. The books reviewed by such literary journals, too, were overwhelmingly authored by men – meaning that women are unfairly underrepresented at every level.

Women are writing brilliant, visionary books – and always have been. And in 2018, we think it’s high time they were recognised for it.

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People are sharing how many women writers they were taught at school – and it's really depressing