Terry Prone: The sisterhood wasn't there for The Avengers' Rigg, or for me

I was doing the gig economy before it was cool, managing on week-to-week contracts, writes Terry Prone

Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg from the television series 'The Avengers'.

Equal pay for equal work might not quite apply, since it was Diana Rigg who did most of the swordplay and martial arts in The Avengers and matched the male lead twinkle for twinkle. 

But she wasn’t paid the same. Indeed, she found, she was way down the line. Not good enough, she said, putting down the fencing rapier and going on strike.