If you post a photo of your engagement ring on social media, you’re pretty much guaranteed to get a lot of likes (as proven by this viral social experiment from 2017).

And Sophie Turner – who plays Sansa Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones – was overjoyed at the flood of congratulatory messages she received when she announced her engagement to Joe Jonas last year.

However, while the actress agrees that being engaged is “lovely”, she admits she doesn’t equate it to the thrill she gets when she reaches a major milestone in her career.

“I’m still like, ‘Holy s**t! I’m engaged,’” Turner explains to Marie Claire.

“[But] there’s this weird misconception that being married is the greatest thing that’ll ever happen to you.

“I’ve always found that my career is something I work for, and when I achieve something, there’s a sense that this is the greatest thing I’ll do in my life.”

It’s a very valid point: in the Fifties, women were primarily housewives and getting married was typically the end goal. However, things have changed dramatically since then: female entrepreneurs alone were responsible for a massive £3.5 billion contribution to the UK economy in 2015, with the proportion of women starting a business nearly doubling from 3.7% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2012.

And while there is still a long way to go before female entrepreneurs can claim equal footing with their male counterparts, especially with the UK’s gender pay gap still stuck at an appalling 18.4%, opportunities for women in business have changed dramatically over the last 100 years.

Sophie Turner flawlessly explains why getting engaged is not an achievement