which here only happens if you're Helen Mirren and then people don't stop talking about it
Indeed. And whilst Wallander was clearly being ridiculous about the Pontus thesis thing, the show itself didn't say he was being ridiculous because why would a young man be interested in an old bat.

I think I've read the odd thing on the Scandinavian internet papers about private industry being behind the public sector in terms of equality, but you have to start somewhere.