While progress is being made in areas, there’s plenty of news from the last few weeks alone that challenge Johnson’s claim that it’s not “strictly” a patriarchy that we live in.

The UN Development Programme’s first gender social norm index has found that almost 90% of people are biased against women around the world – with more than half of people in the UK holding at least one bias.

A disturbing report from Plan International UK has found that 66% of girls aged 14 to 21 have experienced unwanted sexual attention or harassment in a public place.

And, even though more women are now studying at university than men, the Department of Education have just reported that female graduates have lower lifetime earnings.

There’s one thing we can all agree with the prime minister on: “It’s wrong”.

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