So. To be clear. I am very much up for gender pay equality. The more revealing reports the better. But there are other things needed too in the push for parity – salary differentials are the final stage of a filtering process that needs to be tackled long before that point.

What gets overlooked in the rush to tackle the tangible and easily measured bits of financial inequality is how differently men and women (or boys and girls) are brought up to consider the world of money.

My parents opened my first bank account for me when I was six. They put in five pounds and in return I got a green money box that sorted coins into their different categories as they rolled down the slope at the top. All...