Fix The System, Not The Women: And Other Lies That Shape Women's Lives

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WITH A BRAND-NEW CHAPTER Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it ’ Jo Brand An astute and persuasive page-turner Observer_____________________________________________________Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. For not overcoming the odds that are stacked against them. This distracts us from the real the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women. In this explosive book, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates exposes the systemic prejudice at the heart of five of our key institutions.EducationPoliticsMediaPolicingCriminal justiceCombining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform.________________________________________________ Powerful’ Sunday Times I am in awe of Laura Bates . . . her writing is nothing short of perfect Sofie Hagen, author of Happy Fat A blistering manifesto for change Dr Pragya Agarwal‘Finish the book furious – before rallying for the next fight’ Grazia Latest Must-Reads

About the Author

Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in 25 countries worldwide.

Laura writes regularly for the Guardian, Telegraph and the New York Times amongst others and won a British Press Award for her journalism in 2015.

She works closely with politicians, businesses, schools, police forces and organisations from the Council of Europe to the United Nations to tackle gender inequality. She was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to gender equality in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2015 and has been named woman of the year by Cosmopolitan, Red Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine.

Laura is a contributor at Women Under Siege, a New York-based project tackling rape in conflict worldwide and she is patron of SARSAS, Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support. She is the recipient of two honorary degrees, an honorary fellow of St John s College Cambridge and was awarded the Internet and Society Award by the Oxford Internet Institute alongside Sir Tim Berners Lee. Laura is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Vice President of the Hay Festival. She has judged the Women’s Prize,