What with the pink, miniature domestic items for girls to play quietly with and the blue, fighty shouty toys for boys to throw around, we’re just not sure there’s quite enough reinforcing of outdated gender roles in childhood.

So it’s great if schools are willing to pick up the slack, you know? Like teaching girls how to be “ladylike” on dates (“Don’t criticise his driving”) and letting them know which parts of their bodies are frankly way too “distracting” to be on show (again and again).

Or, as one New York mum revealed recently on Facebook, sending young children home with worksheets essentially shaming working mothers for a. going back to work in the first place, and b. not being home when their child arrives back from school.

Oh, except it’s not great, is it? It’s actually pretty depressing.

However, Lynne Polvino was so frustrated with the homework given to her six-year-old daughter Hazel that she posted a feminist riposte on Facebook – which at time of writing was racking up reactions and shares.

Polvino posted a picture of what she says is the original worksheet, which first appears to be a simple enough ‘fill in the blanks’ affair, but on closer inspection reveals a story of true woe – that of poor neglected Lisa and her haphazard father attempting to navigate the chaos of a household abandoned by a mother reigniting her career.

Woman rewrites daughter’s sexist homework after it shames working mums