Tommy Martin: Does talking sport reinforce office patriarchy?

What do we talk about when we talk about sport? Why, the preservation of the patriarchy, of course!

That’s according to Ann Francke, the head of the UK’s Chartered Management Institute. Francke went on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this week to demand that companies curb office sports banter, claiming that “a lot of women, in particular, feel left out … they don’t follow those sports and they don’t like either being forced to talk about them or not being included”.