Last year I blogged about the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, and bemoaned the lack of female representation. It would have been nice to come back a year on and say that everything I moaned about last year had been addressed.

I can't do that.

Last year, Andy Murray won. This year, Andy Murray won.

Last year, Jessica Ennis-Hill finished third out of 12, one of three women on the shortlist. This year, no women made the top three, although there were six women in total shortlisted (37.5 per cent), including three Paralympians. The GB women's hockey team and the women's pair both made the team of the year shortlist again. Paralympic swimmer Ellie Robinson won Young Sports Personality, but her award was sidelined to earlier in the week and a brief segment of the main show. US gymnast Simone Biles won Overseas Sports Personality, thus meaning one more woman won an award than last year. Woo.

The voting figures showed that Sophie Christiansen was fifth and Kate Richardson-Walsh sixth, and Laura Kenny beat her husband Jason into the top eight.But the other three female contenders were 13th, 14th and 15th.

The format was similar to previous years, with the little montages about each shortlisted athlete mixed in with a roundup of the year, month-by-month. By the end of the 'year' I was getting frustrated:

Watching the #SPOTY month-by-month roundup, you'd be forgiven for thinking sport is mainly football, cricket, boxing and for men. Grrrr.

— Joanne Harris (@joannerharris) December 18, 2016

The vast majority of the clips seemed to be about male-dominated sport. Endless rounds of boxing, rugby, football and cricket matches, golf and motorsport. Occasional glimpses of women's football, cycling and individual athletes in more minority sports. I'd estimate perhaps a quarter of the footage at most featured women.

I was pretty convinced that either Team GB or the GB women's hockey team would win Team of the Year, and while I was of course supporting the rowers I'd have been happy with either. The hockey team got a good moment in the spotlight when they were highlighting captain Kate Richardson-Walsh's place on the shortlist, at least.

But while the increased numbers of women on the shortlist meant that we saw more of them in the montages, I still felt that the representation of women - and indeed Paralympic sport - was insufficient. There was a great double interview with Kadeena Cox and Sarah Storey with a bunch of Paralympians standing silent on the stage behind them, and rider Sophie Christiansen was good in her interview too, but Laura Kenny (née Trott) was presented as the lively half of 'Mr & Mrs Kenny' with her husband Jason.

There was the briefest of glimpses of Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley but Katherine's achievements in winning a fifth Olympic medal, making her the most-decorated British female Olympian, went without notice (unless I missed it?). Instead Michael Phelps got the Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Prince William.

So in the end, the same old arguments persist. I maintain we need better coverage of women's sport to stimulate more participation and more viewing of women's sport. The Olympics and Paralympics showed that people do want to watch women's sport. The hockey final was massive, for example. Given the right support women's sport could fly. The BBC could be a powerful tool for that and I believe it's still not doing quite enough.

Maybe next year I will get to write about a deserving female winner of SPOTY. There's always hope.