As is becoming traditional, this year’s International Women’s Day was marked by a jibe at men. A global study of 23,000 people was released on the same day, attracting headlines that would have you believe young men expect women to be servile and subordinate.

Headlines read that this new ‘shock poll’ makes for ‘depressing reading’, proving that Gen Z men (those born between 1997 and 2012) must be misogynists. The surprising revelations in question concerned traditional gender roles: 31 per cent of those Gen Z men surveyed agreed a woman should always obey her husband, and 33 per cent believed a husband should have the final say on important decisions. This stood in contrast with male respondents in the Baby Boomer generation (those born between 1946 and 1964), of whom only 13 and 17 per cent agreed with those statements respectively.