It’s a very tired cliché that women are bad with money. TikTok abounds with videos where women do ‘girl math’ to buy clothes they can’t afford; shows like Sex and the City have sold us the idea that debt is fine, as long as the fashion is on point.
"I spent $40,000 on shoes and have no place to live! I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes,” Carrie says in series six.