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Category:Women StudiesWomen StudiesWomen Studies-Wot
Publisher: Simon && Schuster Uk | ISBN: 9781398514331 | Pages: 208

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 problem: 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. Education Politics Media Policing Criminal justice Combining 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 studied English at Cambridge University and went on to be a freelance journalist. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Red Magazine and Grazia among others. She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New-York based organisation working to combat the use of sexual violence as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.