Experience may be more important than a qualification when it comes to landing a job as a new survey finds 46% of professionals believe it helped secure their current role.

Taylor's promoter Eddie Hearn said: "She's going to break down all the barriers."

The availability of professional job opportunities increased by more than a quarter in the opening three months of the year, compared with a year ago.

The generation of women approaching the end of their professional careers have seen changes in how society, the workplace and politics regard and facilitate women that their mothers could only have dreamt of.