Laura Bates

Education and early life

Bates' parents are Diane Elizabeth Bates, a French language teacher, and Adrian Keith Bates, a physician. She grew up in the London Borough of Hackney and Taunton, and has an older sister and a younger brother. Her parents divorced when Bates was in her twenties. She was privately educated at King's College, Taunton.

Everyday Sexism Project The Everyday Sexism Project website was founded in 2012. Around the third anniversary of the website, in April 2015, Everyday Sexism had reached 100,000 entries. Bates has said that she has faced abuse online. After her publication of Men Who Hate Women in 2020, Bates said she received deepfake pornography images of herself performing sexual acts on the sender.

Bates' first book Everyday Sexism, based on the project, was published by the London subsidiary of Simon & Schuster in 2014.

After Everyday Sexism, Bates published several more books about sexism. Bates is a contributor to The Guardian, The Independent the Financial Times and other publications. She is a contributor to the New York–based Women Under Siege Project.

Honours and awards 2013: Cosmopolitan magazine's Ultimate New Feminist Award in 2013. 2015: Awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to gender equality. 2018: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in its "40 Under 40" initiative. 2020: Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. 2022: Evening Standard list of "London women changing the world" for International Women's Day

Publications Everyday Sexism: The Project that Inspired a Worldwide Movement Girl Up: Kick Ass, Claim Your Woman Card, and Crush Everyday Sexism Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism The Burning Men Who Hate Women Fix the System, Not the Women Sisters of Sword and Shadow Sisters of Fire and Fury The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

Personal life Bates married Nick Taylor in 2014.