She is a regular contributor to the Today Programme, Woman's Hour, Channel 4 News, Newsnight and more, and has been awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queen's Honours List for services to gender equality. What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing. Bates is scathing about Priti Patel’s support for an app to log women’s movements, on top of managing all the other gear they are advised to carry. She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New-York based organisation working to combat the use of sexual violence as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide. Emotions can be difficult things to define, yet we all recognise them when we feel them or see them in others.

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Hundreds already exist, “ignored and unused” in reports and campaign materials of feminist and civil rights organisations. Fix the System contains plenty of suggestions for reform, including apps that track the movements of men convicted of crimes against women, and banning non-disclosure agreements that gag staff who have experienced maternity discrimination. Disabled women are twice as likely to suffer domestic abuse, but just one in 10 spaces in refuges is accessible to those with physical disabilities.Bates’s central message, which she has developed through her Everyday Sexism Project, the online forum that has now received 200,000 stories of sexism and misogyny from all over the world, and books including Girl Up (2016) and Men Who Hate Women (2020), is that there is a spectrum of gender inequality. If you look at the worlds of politics, business and, yes, even journalism, you’ll find a panoply of examples of hubris; if the men at the top had a little more self-doubt, we might end up with a better-run world. An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.

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I was haunted by the story of a woman attacked by her ex-husband, who smashed her head so hard against a BMW that it dented the bodywork and left her needing hospital treatment.Fix the System, Not the Women is an attempt to highlight “the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality” – and to pull apart the myth that women are complicit in our own oppression. She encourages all women to make one, charting a life in sexism, from the playground to the street to the workplace. Maternity discrimination, workplace sexual harassment, the gender pay gap “and so much more” lie somewhere in between. Bates also reminds us that if we want to tackle oppression in one sphere, we need to be aware of its overlap with others. The feminist campaigner Laura Bates, who founded the Everyday Sexism project, which collects women’s stories about misogyny and discrimination, takes this argument much further in her new book.

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Bates pursues her thesis across five key areas: education, policing, criminal justice, media and politics. But the most rousing sections of the book are on male violence and the burden on women to keep themselves safe.

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in one month’s time. Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform. In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithful relationship as a prism through which to examine the complicated hold we each have on one another. I am in awe of Laura Bates and her ability to perfectly balance facts and her personal experiences, opinions and emotions.

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The fact that only a quarter of the Cabinet are women might just explain why working mothers lost their jobs at far higher rates than fathers during the Covid-19 pandemic, and new mothers were forced to give birth alone while pubs were allowed to open. Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Red Magazine and Grazia among others.What if women can’t network, mentor, charm, assert and lean in their way out of sexism because this is a system that is rigged against them? This distracts us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women. I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time.