The broader treatment of females in the public eye doesn’t help. Even as a journalist, Kuenssberg commented, “you get a huge amount of stick about what you look like, what you wear, what you say, that male people on air just do not get. And some of it is really unpleasant, and some of it appears in august publications.” As Chakelian also observed, in happily giving front-page attention to Nigel Farage’s recent comments about breastfeeding and women’s pay, the media offered a loud voice to the kind of “straight-up sexism” we thought we’d left back in the ’80s.

It’s not just the newspapers that treat women unfairly. Kuenssberg pointed out that social media “amplifies the best and worst of human behaviour”, and women in the public eye are often the targets of vitriolic attack. For many women, the prospect of their family being scrutinised in the press is considered too high a price to pay for becoming an MP. The appalling abuse directed at Jenny Willott MP after she discussed the challenges of balancing parliamentary duties with parenthood on Inside the Commons was highlighted as a case in point.

[How well we recall Leader Paul Diviani patronisingly referring to Councillor Claire Wright as “young lady” One wonders if he would have enjoyed it if she had then referred to him as “old man”!]