Sexist remarks are just the tip of an ingrained culture| Catherine Bennett

Women at the highest levels can still be made to feel not so much equally employed as lucky to be tolerated

Does there, outside convents, exist a line of work where the arrival of women does not, as a luminary of Silicon Valley has allegedly protested, "kill the buzz"? Or in some other way pollute the ideal workplace vibe?

The Tim Hunt episode indicates that both city workers and senior members of Ukip, along with the Metropolitan police, scaffolders, the judiciary, military, Sky Sport, the technology industry, all sporting organisations, and BBC news and current, may have further cause for resentment. Since that pernicious misogyny with which all are associated is repeatedly shown to be utterly unremarkable.