Laura Bates
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| Born | Laura Carolyn Bates[1] Script error: No such module "person date". Oxford, England |
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| Education | King's College, Taunton |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Subject | Feminism |
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| Notable awards | British Empire Medal |
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Nick Taylor
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Laura Carolyn Bates BEM FRSL (born 27 August 1986)[1] is an English feminist writer. She founded the Everyday Sexism Project website in April 2012. Her first book, Everyday Sexism, was published in 2014.[2][5][6]
Education and early life
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| video icon Everyday sexism: Laura Bates at TEDxCoventGardenWomen, TEDx Talks, 16:05, 17 January 2014 |
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| video icon Shouting Back :Laura Bates, Caroline Criado-Perez and Samira Ahmed at Conway Hall 19:30, 9 October 2014 |
Bates' parents are Diane Elizabeth Bates, a French language teacher, and Adrian Keith Bates, a physician.[1] She grew up in the London Borough of Hackney and Taunton, and has an older sister and a younger brother. Her parents divorced when Bates was in her twenties.[7] She was privately educated at King's College, Taunton.[1] and subsequently studied English literature at University of Cambridge where she was an undergraduate student at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated in 2007.
Career
After graduating, Bates remained in Cambridge for two-and-a-half years as a researcher for the psychologist Susan Quilliam, who was working on an updated edition of The Joy of Sex.[7] Bates then worked as an actress and a nanny, a period during which she has said she experienced sexism at auditions and found the young girls she was caring for were already preoccupied with their body image.[8][9]
Everyday Sexism Project
The Everyday Sexism Project website was founded in 2012. Around the third anniversary of the website, in April 2015, Everyday Sexism had reached 100,000 entries.[10] Bates has said that she has faced abuse online. After her publication of Men Who Hate Women in 2020, Bates said she received deepfake pornography images of herself performing sexual acts on the sender.[11]
Bates' first book Everyday Sexism, based on the project, was published by the London subsidiary of Simon & Schuster in 2014.[12]
After Everyday Sexism, Bates published several more books about sexism. Bates is a contributor to The Guardian,[13] The Independent[14] the Financial Times and other publications. She is a contributor to the New York–based Women Under Siege Project.[15]
Honours and awards
- 2013: Cosmopolitan magazine's Ultimate New Feminist Award in 2013.[8]
- 2014: BBC's 100 women.[16]
- 2015: Awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to gender equality.[17][18]
- 2018: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in its "40 Under 40" initiative.[19]
- 2020: Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.[20]
- 2022: Evening Standard list of "London women changing the world" for International Women's Day[21]
Publications
- Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement[2]
- Girl Up: Kick Ass, Claim Your Woman Card, and Crush Everyday Sexism[22]
- Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism[23]
- The Burning[24]
- Men Who Hate Women[3]
- Fix the System, Not the Women[4]
- Sisters of Sword and Shadow[25]
- Sisters of Fire and Fury[26]
- The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny[27]
Personal life
Bates married Nick Taylor in 2014.[7][28]
References
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- ^ a b c d Script error: No such module "template wrapper". (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2014). Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1471131572.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2020). Men Who Hate Women. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471194337.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2022). Fix the System, Not the Women. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781398514331.
- ^ The Everyday Sexism Project
- ^ EverydaySexism on Twitter
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Hannah (12 April 2014). "Rape Threats, Groping and Perverts – Everyday Sexism: Why Laura Bates Is Shouting Back". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hines, Sophie (5 December 2013). "Laura Bates Wins Ultimate New Feminist 2013". Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Top Ten Revealed: 9. Laura Bates, Campaigner". BBC. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sanghani, Radhika (16 April 2015). "A Day in the Life of the Everyday Sexism Hashtag". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Saner, Emine (31 January 2024). "Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: 'It's men telling a powerful woman to get back in her box'". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2014). Everyday Sexism. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471131578.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Laura Bates - contributor page". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Laura Bates - contributor page". The Independent. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Laura Bates - contributor page". Women Under Siege Project. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Who are the 100 Women 2014?". BBC News. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
- ^ United Kingdom: Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 61256"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 12 June 2015. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util"..
{{cite magazine}}: Check|url=value (help); More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help)Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (12 June 2015). "Queen's Birthday Honours List: Knights Outnumber Dames Five to One". The Guardian.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (28 June 2018). "Royal Society of Literature Admits 40 New Fellows to Address Historical Biases". the Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Everyday Sexism activist and founder of Raspberry Pi elected as Honorary Fellows of St John's". St John's College, University of Cambridge. 9 May 2020. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Strick, Katie (8 March 2022). "International Women's Day: 22 amazing London women changing the world in 2022". Evening Standard. Retrieved 15 April 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2016). Girl Up: Kick Ass, Claim Your Woman Card, and Crush Everyday Sexism. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471149504.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2018). Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471169243.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2019). The Burning. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1471170209.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2023). Sisters of Sword and Shadow. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781398520042.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2024). Sisters of Fire and Fury. Simon & Schuster Children's UK. ISBN 978-1398519374.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (2025). The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471190483.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Laura (28 June 2014). "How to Have a Feminist Wedding". theguardian.com. London: The Guardian.
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