Why young women are so angry

The growing divergence in political sensibilities between young men and young women has been well catalogued in recent years. The more straightforward and therefore more compelling narrative is that this has been driven by men, under the influence of the manosphere, moving to the right. But in these pages last week, my inimitable colleague Emily Lawford, supported by polling from Merlin Strategy, put forward a counter-narrative: that women under 30 are moving to the radical left on both politics and economics. They hold a far more negative view of their male peers than their male peers do of them, and are also more pessimistic about their own life chances. Gen Z women, the polling found, are less likely to say they feel "happy", "ambitious", "excited" and "fulfilled" than their male peers. How did we get here?