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This sits alongside a parallel issue over the increasingly disproportionate ratio of femaie to male trainees. According to Law Society statistics in 2016, of UK students accepted onto law courses: 12,060 (67.5 per cent) were female and 5,795 (32.5 per cent) were male.

Further, in the year ending 31 July 2016, 5,728 new traineeships were registered with the SRA. Of these trainees: 3,566 (62.3 per cent) were female and 2,162 (37.7 per cent) were male.

More than likely in 2017 these figures are even higher.

True, most very senior positions are male dominated, but cultural and demographic change with shift this within a few years.

If the gender statistics were the opposite there would be justifiable criticism. But there's minimal noise, and there's a Women Lawyers Division but no male equivalent. Go figure.