Social media users have been quick to criticise the tone of this coverage. “You mean mothers can also be talented?!” one person wrote. “Who knew?” Another added: “It’s hard to believe it’s 2019, isn’t it?”

This kind of rhetoric isn’t confined to the Oscars. Erasing a woman’s identity by labeling her a ‘mum’ or a ‘wife’ is something that has happened to everyone from Nobel Prize Winners – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was called “British wife” in news reports when she won her award – to New York Times’ Bestselling authors.

Like Liane Moriarty, for example. It happened to her when she attended the premiere of the television adaptation of her novel Big Little Lies in 2017, only to read articles the next day headlined: ‘Sydney mum walks red carpet’.

“Rather than Sydney writer,” Moriarty has said. “Before I had children I was a full time writer and after I had my children I’m still a full time writer. My husband is a full time stay-at-home dad. Nothing has changed. Once you have children you are called a mum and that’s all you are.”

The one word we should never use when discussing a woman’s professional achievements