As a Christian woman, I have been encouraged by the trending hashtag #womeninmalefields

‘In a male-dominated society, Jesus always spoke to women with respect,’ says author, Ruth Leigh as she wonders what he would say to the new TikTok trend.

Let’s get this out of the way straight off. I am a woman of a certain age. I was born in the late Sixties, I sported legwarmers and mohair batwing jumpers without a trace of irony (in my defence, everyone else was doing it) and I’m old enough to remember when microwaves and video recorders were the size of small vans and needed a degree in engineering to operate them.

The slightly less lovely side of that is that sexism and misogyny were a daily part of life, largely unquestioned.