Thread by @Scarlett__Mag

On the cover of this week's @NewStatesman: Not the manosphere, but the femosphere?

Gen-z women are in revolt against a country they don't like and don't think works for them.

Thanks to @Will___lloyd for commissioning new research on angry young women @emilylawford 🧵👇

✴️Young women are 26 pts less favourable to capitalism than young men, and feel much more positively towards communism than capitalism.

✴️Women u25 dislike capitalism so much, they view it as (un)favourably as fascism.

✴️UK should pay slavery reparations by a 2-1 margin

✴️They think 43%-40% 'it is unfair some people have more than others and we should redistribute wealth' over 'people deserve to keep what is theirs, even if it means others have less'

✴️More negative than young men about their careers, earning potential and property

Young middle class educated white women feel the most strongly about these issues.

✴️17% of ABC1 women have a positive view of capitalism compared to 32% of C2DE women

✴️ABC1 women more likely to think the economy works against them

✴️Female graduates hold much more positive views about communism, feminism, socialism and extinction rebellion than non-graduates

✴️Grads are also more likely to back slavery reparations say we need more government intervention to ensure life is fair

White women are more critical about the country and their chances in it than those from an ethnic minority background

✴️Young white women are more likely to say the country is racist and sexist

✴️Young white women are less likely to say they feel valued by society

There is a 'Covid generation'

✴️ U25s are much more likely to think Covid had a significant impact on heir lives and opportunities.

✴️U25 women are much more likely to believe that "things are stacked against me, no matter how hard I try"

Strikingly, young women are *a lot* more negative about the opposite gender than young men.

✴️U30 women are 3x as likely to hold a negative view of young men than the other way around

✴️Just 35% of u25 women hold a positive view, only 11% a very positive view

✴️6 in 10 (58%) say they would find it difficult to date someone who disagreed on Gaza

✴️3 in 4 (74%) say the say the same about views of Donald Trump, with even more saying they wouldn't date someone who disagreed about social justice