As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for occasionally 'babysitting' their own children and women are castigated for daring to combine motherhood and career; while baby… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Newton: but a lot of the guys here were in prison before they came here and they’ll still be in prison when they leave here…they associate their misery to the fact that they’re in prison, and it’s not that. I think a lot of my misery was me hating me, and hating me made me hate everyone else...Now, I feel… — Laura Bates Copy Share
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled. — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“It is not our conscience that torments us over our image; that is our ego tormenting us. Our conscience torments us when we behave in ways that are contrary to our values. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result of your shame, it is conscience. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result… — Laura Bates Copy Share
Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want,… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?” — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Bates Copy Share
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… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
