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Laura Bates BEM (born 27 August 1986) is a British feminist writer. She founded the Everyday Sexism Project website in April 2012. Her first book, Everyday Sexism, was published in 2014.

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The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.

Idea, Ideas, Lose, Men, Responsibility

The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.

Breaks, Careers, Child, Children, Choices, Play

As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1
3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1
5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1
10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination. . . to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.

Argue, Fact, Jobs, Names, Problem, Writing

While not all men are sexist, all women face the impact of sexism in some way, so the point is there's a massive problem to be solved, and you can be a big part of the solution.

Impact, Massive, Men, Point, Way, Women

We have to name a problem to solve a problem.

Name, Names, Problem, Solve

It's true that the gender pay gap is complicated. It's true that it is very slowly getting smaller. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It would have to be a pretty HUGE conspiracy for every reputable major news outlet to report on it annually if it was a massive feminist lie.

Annually, Exist, Lie, Lying, Mean, Pay Gap

Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite capable of fighting multiple battles at once!

Battle, Battles, Capable, Feminist, Fighting, Silencing

If you think quotas mean the best person not getting the job, you have to believe that the best person always gets the job at the moment. Do you really believe there are more than three times more men named John qualified to lead FTSE 100 companies in the UK than all the women put together? All the 32 MILLION women combined? Just statistically, that doesn't make sense.

Believe, Job, Jobs, Mean, Moment, Times

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

Goal, Needs, Order, Primarily

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

Daily, Live Life, Sexual, Think, Thinking, Violence

Feminism doesn't mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!

Feminism, Hate, Heels, High Heels, Mean, Pink

If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you're probably not doing them right.

Annoyed, Compliment, Harassed, Making, Scared, Women

We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.

Attitude, Behaviour, Behaviours, Boards, Sexism, Stuck

The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.

Controversial, Men, Reality, Reflect, Sex, War

The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.

Caring, Children, Explanations, Jobs, Women

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