"The liberal consensus is that we live in a patriarchy and we need to overcome the inherent discrimination against women and champion their rights. But this consensus is under threat. And not just from Trump and his followers. Educationalists are increasingly calling for action as boys underperform girls in every age group at school. Girls are a third more likely to go to university and, in the immediate years following, the gender pay gap is ten percent in their favour. Moreover, they claim this is the reason for the popularity of figures like Andrew Tate and for young men voting for the right, with three times as many committing suicide than women.
With 57% of Gen Z men in the UK believing that men are discriminated against, and 1 in 5 preferring unelected leaders to democracy, is there a risk to social order and even democracy itself? Will traditional masculine values of strength, courage and determination, return to dominate social and political life? Or are feminist gains sufficiently embedded in culture to stave off the threat of a newly confident and aggressive masculinity? "
