Despite the best efforts of City HR teams to train up old-fashioned male partners into something resembling open-minded human beings, you don’t have to have been patted on your behind and called ‘toots’ by the senior partner to know sexism is still rife in the Square Mile.

News is currently sweeping like wildfire through one mid-market London firm of some rather, er, indiscreet remarks made by a partner at a client meeting in front of a number of associates.