This week has shaped up to resemble a time warp in terms of sexism: the day after Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon were plastered across the cover of a tabloid with a headline asking us to forget Brexit and compare their legs, a London tube advert comparing a woman to a house extension is doing the rounds on Twitter.

Estate agents March & Parsons produced a poster in which a young woman is pictured draped over an older man with the caption “A charming period property with a modern extension.”

Beyond the fact that the picture is sleazy in its composition, the text has reduced her to a subordinate, an accessory.

Estate agents backtrack over sexist tube ad comparing a woman to a house extension