Is the Women’s Equality party too sensible for these extreme times? | Gaby Hinsliff

The party’s leader is right to eschew clickbait politics. But Sophie Walker needs to find a way to get her message across

Something has snapped. In Good and Mad, her new book on female anger, the American writer Rebecca Traister argues that a long-suppressed fury seething under the surface of women’s lives is finally breaking through and changing the nature of political debate. You can feel it in the air, a sort of fierce crackling impatience with the status quo for women, which has helped to fuel everything from abortion law reform in Ireland and the pussy protests against Trump to the global #MeToo movement against sexual harassment.

Younger women clearly aren’t prepared to put up with what their mothers endured. But many older women too are raging over everything from changes to the state pension age to a trans rights movement that some fear is riding roughshod over vulnerable women’s concerns. They feel ignored or taken for granted by the political parties they have supported all their lives.

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