International Women’s Day is a time to recognise how far equality has come

Fairness is still a way off but, compared with the widespread disdain and leering of yesteryear, progress has been immenseThere were lots of things that frustrated me about being a little girl: not being allowed to wear trousers at school, being prevented from joining the cubs, the year my brothers all got penknives under the Christmas tree from my grandparents while I opened a ceramic Jeremy Fisher. But one of the biggest annoyances of all was that the fastest person in the world was never goin