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… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation in the first place. But in the short term, alongside other measures, they can be an effective way… — 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… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
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
“This is a battle that we will win. Because women are wittier, brighter, stronger and braver than a misogynistic and patriarchal world has given… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“...I think a lot of my misery was me hating me, and hating me made me hate everyone else. I felt like such a… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the male suicide… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
