Last year International Women's Day got swallowed up by a pandemic that would go on to indisputably prove the actual value of feminine currency. Women's labour, so much of it undervalued or unpaid, remains the sinew that holds the backbone of our countries and our worlds upright.

This is my niece Liv on her way to score a try in her first game of girls rugby last week. Warms the cockles, I tell ya. Rugby tragic that I am, when I was at school girls weren't allowed to play. Now Liv can take her love of the game to the world stage if she wants to - but at the moment she will only be paid if she reaches the national level or attracts her own sponsors.