Jessica Butcher

Jessica Butcher is the co-founder of Blippar and social media video platform Tick. In 2012, she was listed as Fortune "10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs", and one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2014. She was one of four new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board commissioners appointed in November 2020.

Views on feminism and gender pay gap Butcher has described herself as an "old-school feminist" who is critical of modern feminism. In a TEDx talk in 2018 called "Is modern feminism starting to undermine itself?" Butcher said: "Feminism, like other forms of identity politics, has become obsessed with female victimhood. Whereas it once used to be about the portrayal of women as mature, equal partners in society, it now seems more to be about girl power – and yet it disempowers, assumes that we're weak and defenceless, like children." This was criticised by Sian Elliott, policy officer at the Trades Union Congress, who said: "Women's choices are constrained when it comes to work because of the unequal division of care between men and women, and that women have very little choice but to go into part-time work because of the lack of flexible quality jobs, and a lack of affordable flexible childcare. ... It is a necessity that many women have to go into part-time work because they need to be able to balance work and care." However, figures such as fathers' rights group Fathers4Justice and Brexit activist Darren Grimes have supported her appointment to the role.