Laura Bates
Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a collection of over 10,000 women's daily experiences of gender inequality. She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New York-based project working to combat the use of sexualised violence as a tool of war. She has written for the Independent, the Huffington Post, Grazia, the Women's Media Center and JUMP! magazine for girls.
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Next generation of social media 'exposing girls to sexual abuse'
13 February 2013 07:31 PM
Increasingly popular 'question and answer' websites accused of exploiting children
Long after Jimmy Savile, our society normalises sexual assault and shames victims into silence
11 January 2013 06:20 PM
That women 'ask for it' and victims should 'be responsible for avoiding assault', are recurring themes in the stories sent to our writer's Everyday Sexism blog
The protests sparked by gang-rape in India aren't the beginning and they won't be the end
09 January 2013 06:00 AM
From rape and assault to catcalls and street harassment, women around the world are taking a stand against gender prejudice.
2012: the year when it became okay to blame victims of sexual assault
28 December 2012 06:01 PM
The myth that women can be held responsible for men’s sex crimes has returned, writes Laura Bates
A letter to Santa from all women
19 December 2012 12:00 AM
We don't want material things this Christmas, just equality and respect.
FHM, Virgin and Zoo Australia: The 12 Days of Misogyny
12 December 2012 12:00 AM
Think sexist advertising isn't a big deal? Think again.
Art imitating life: How sexism in video games mirrors real-life gender imbalance
04 December 2012 12:14 PM
Want to play as a female character? Choose the vulnerable victim, or the sexy, disproportioned vixen.
Sites like Uni Lad only act to support our everyday rape culture
27 November 2012 11:14 AM
Rape jokes only make fun of victims who have trouble being believed in the first place - it's not 'banter', it's offensive.
'My sister was called a whore and a slut by men driving by, just for walking home by herself' - but sure, women are equal now (more or less)
20 November 2012 09:48 AM
Our campaigner, whose runs the cult Everyday Sexism blog, on a feminism for today
Amid competition from the likes of Asda, Ryanair's Cabin Crew Calendar is sexploitation at its worst
15 November 2012 03:05 PM
Our campaigner says that implicit within the low-cost carrier's vile campaign is the invitation to ogle at airline staff. And we're not talking about the men here, are we?
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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