How young girls can fight back against everyday sexism

Barbara Scully meets Laura Bates, author of ‘Girl Up’, a guide for girls, young women, and parents, on modern-day sexism and its insidious nature. The book has advice on how to counter the training all girls get in how not to use their voices

Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a website which logs women’s experiences of everyday sexism in order to illustrate that sexism is alive and well (everydaysexism.com) and she has just written her second book, Girl Up.

Although I didn’t know it, Girl Up is the book that I have been waiting for. It is a manifesto, an instruction book, and a call to arms for our girls and young women. But it is also vital reading for parents of teenagers especially girls.