Fix the System, Not the Women

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She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Red Magazine and Grazia among others. In every panel discussion about how to achieve greater equality in the workplace, someone always pipes up to say that women just need more confidence.

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An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s authority and power. What if women can’t network, mentor, charm, assert and lean in their way out of sexism because this is a system that is rigged against them? Disabled women are twice as likely to suffer domestic abuse, but just one in 10 spaces in refuges is accessible to those with physical disabilities. Bates’s central message, which she has developed through her Everyday Sexism Project, the online forum that has now received 200,000 stories of sexism and misogyny from all over the world, and books including Girl Up (2016) and Men Who Hate Women (2020), is that there is a spectrum of gender inequality. I was haunted by the story of a woman attacked by her ex-husband, who smashed her head so hard against a BMW that it dented the bodywork and left her needing hospital treatment.This distracts us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women. For Laura Bates, it began with a heavy piece of gold jewellery that her mother found on the passenger seat of the family car. Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform. She encourages all women to make one, charting a life in sexism, from the playground to the street to the workplace.

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The feminist campaigner Laura Bates, who founded the Everyday Sexism project, which collects women’s stories about misogyny and discrimination, takes this argument much further in her new book. In recent years, books such as Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Fragility have been bought in huge numbers by white people. But the most rousing sections of the book are on male violence and the burden on women to keep themselves safe.From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships. Emotions can be difficult things to define, yet we all recognise them when we feel them or see them in others. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?

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Fix the System contains plenty of suggestions for reform, including apps that track the movements of men convicted of crimes against women, and banning non-disclosure agreements that gag staff who have experienced maternity discrimination. Bates pursues her thesis across five key areas: education, policing, criminal justice, media and politics. In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithful relationship as a prism through which to examine the complicated hold we each have on one another.If you look at the worlds of politics, business and, yes, even journalism, you’ll find a panoply of examples of hubris; if the men at the top had a little more self-doubt, we might end up with a better-run world. She is a regular contributor to the Today Programme, Woman's Hour, Channel 4 News, Newsnight and more, and has been awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queen's Honours List for services to gender equality.

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World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing. I am in awe of Laura Bates and her ability to perfectly balance facts and her personal experiences, opinions and emotions. 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.Fix the System, Not the Women is an attempt to highlight “the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality” – and to pull apart the myth that women are complicit in our own oppression. Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in one month’s time.