The solo revolution: What it means to be a single woman today

Valentine’s Day might be focused on couples but as Jennifer McShane recently discovered, there’s a community of women changing the narrative of what it means to be single

'The problem isn’t being single, the problem lies with the toxic narrative that we are fed about singledom, which was particularly focused on single women'

It remains utterly bizarre in 2022 how, in the run up to February 14, everything involved with being in a partnership is celebrated while being unattached continues to get seriously bad PR, to put it mildly.

In theory, we’ve come a long way from Sex And The City and it’s characters ultimately deeming themselves worthy based on the men they were dating (the less said about And Just Like That the better mind you!), but the pandemic has definitely given singledom a new focus — and not necessarily for the better. It feels like all we read and talk about are the years lost, who found love during lockdown, who didn’t, and what’s next now that some normality seems to be on the horizon.