So, when was the best time to be a British woman?

Surely it’s now? We live longer, do better in education and make men feel like we’ve never had it so good – so why doesn’t it seem that way, asks Sophie Walker, who unpacks the facts from the fiction for International Women’s Day

Too many men are refusing to listen to the learnings of feminism – just look at Andrew Tate’s following (iStock/Getty)

British women outlive British men. Girls outperform boys in GCSEs, and are more likely to go to university than men. The last general election saw the highest proportion of female MPs elected yet. Now, 30 per cent of young men think it will be harder to be a man than a woman in the next 20 years.

International Women’s Day offers an assessment of whether it’s a good time to be a woman. And it might seem reasonable to suggest that in 2024, 100 years after women were allowed to vote, get divorced and inherit property, it’s even the best time to be a woman.