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Laura Bates

BEM FRSL
Bates in 2014
Bates in 2014
Born (1986-08-27) 27 August 1986 (age 38)
Oxford, England
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
SubjectFeminism
Notable works
  • Everyday Sexism (2014)
  • Girl Up (2016)
  • The Burning (2019)
Notable awardsBritish Empire Medal
Spouse
Nick Taylor
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(m. 2014)​

Laura Bates BEM FRSL (born 27 August 1986, Oxford[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.

Biography

External videos
video icon Everyday sexism: Laura Bates at TEDxCoventGardenWomen, TEDx Talks, 16:05, 17 January 2014
External videos
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 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.[2] She attended King's College, Taunton.[1] She read English literature at St John's College, Cambridge, and graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007. 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.[2]

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.[3][4]

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.[5] Bates has said that she has faced abuse online.

Bates' first book Everyday Sexism, based on the project, was published by the London subsidiary of Simon & Schuster in 2014.[6]

Career

After Everyday Sexism, Bates published several more books about sexism. Bates is a contributor to The Guardian,[7] The Independent[8] and other publications. She is a contributor to the New York–based Women Under Siege Project.[9]

Honours and awards

Personal life

Bates married Nick Taylor in 2014.[2][14]

Publications

  • 2014: Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement, Simon & Schuster ISBN 1471131572
  • 2016: Girl Up: Kick Ass, Claim Your Woman Card, and Crush Everyday Sexism, Simon & Schuster ISBN 9781471149504
  • 2018: Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism, Simon & Schuster ISBN 9781471169243
  • 2019: The Burning, Simon & Schuster ISBN 1471170209
  • 2020: Men Who Hate Women, Simon & Schuster ISBN 9781471194337
  • 2022: Fix the System, Not the Women, Simon & Schuster ISBN 9781398514331

References

  1. ^ a b c "Bates, Laura Carolyn, (born 27 Aug. 1986), Founder, Everyday Sexism Project, 2012". Who's who & who was who. 2014. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281470. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c 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.
  3. ^ a b Hines, Sophie (5 December 2013). "Laura Bates Wins Ultimate New Feminist 2013". Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Top Ten Revealed: 9. Laura Bates, Campaigner". BBC. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  5. ^ Sanghani, Radhika (16 April 2015). "A Day in the Life of the Everyday Sexism Hashtag". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  6. ^ Bates, Laura (2014). Everyday Sexism. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471131578.
  7. ^ "Laura Bates - contributor page". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Laura Bates - contributor page". The Independent. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  9. ^ "Laura Bates - contributor page". Women Under Siege Project. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  10. ^ "Who are the 100 Women 2014?". BBC News. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
  11. ^ Bates, Laura (12 June 2015). "Queen's Birthday Honours List: Knights Outnumber Dames Five to One". The Guardian.
  12. ^ Flood, Alison (28 June 2018). "Royal Society of Literature Admits 40 New Fellows to Address Historical Biases". the Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  13. ^ "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. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  14. ^ Bates, Laura (28 June 2014). "How to Have a Feminist Wedding". The Guardian.
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