Podcasts about everyday sexism

How do we teach children to have grit? That's what the Government is suggesting needs to be a new focus in schools, to bolster children's mental health. To discuss how parents can help their children develop resilience, Anita Rani is joined by Sue Atkins, parenting coach and author of Parenting Made Easy and child psychologist Laverne Antrobus.We are currently hearing different perspectives on the recent Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman under the Equality Act, and how it could and should be interpreted on the ground. Today Anita speaks to Sacha Deshmukh, Chief Executive of Amnesty International UK.At age 20, actor Sam Ipema was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. Her highly successful play, Dear Annie, I Hate You details this experience and is currently on at Riverside Studios in London. She joins Anita Rani and neurologist Dr Faye Begeti to discuss.Founder of the Everyday Sexism project, Laura Bates, has been looking into artificial intelligence.  Laura argues that existing forms of discrimination are being enforced by AI through historic coding, prioritising profitability at the expense of women's safety and rights. But also worrying is how simple it is for AI to enable users to create deepfake or AI girlfriends, that can perpetuate the abuse of women. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt

It's International Women's Month, so naturally we get into a chat about how we can celebrate women everyday...Lauren debates whether friends should be supporting each other on social media, as well as in real life. Billy wonders if female footballers should actually be paid more, and our audience members share with us hilarious but infuriating times that men have accidentally been sexist. Also, Christie does what she does best by not knowing Sabrina Carpenters song and getting Glastonbury festival confused with The Simpsons, and Lauren and Billy share their huge disappointment in the lineup this year. If you have any confessions or dilemmas you'd like us to read out anonymously on the pod, send in to teaatfour@junglecreations.com or DM us @teaatfourpod

Twiggy turned the modelling world upside down with her androgynous style, big round eyes, bold eyelashes, and pixie haircut, becoming a defining figure and fashion icon of the swinging 60s. Considered the world's first supermodel, she went on to have a successful career in acting and singing, earning two Golden Globes and a Tony nomination, designed fashion ranges, appeared as a judge on America's Next Top Model, and was awarded a damehood for services to the fashion, arts and charity. A new documentary, Twiggy, directed by Sadie Frost, is out in cinemas now. Twiggy joined Krupa Padhy to talk about her long career.Kyle Clifford was found guilty of raping his ex-girlfriend in an attack in which he murdered her, her mother and her sister. Louise, Hannah and Carol Hunt were murdered two weeks after Louise ended her relationship with him. It has been revealed that prosecutors said "violent misogyny" promoted by social media influencer Andrew Tate "fuelled" his attacks. However, the defence argued this material had too vague a link and was far too prejudicial to be heard by the jury. As we hear this news, concerns rise again about the influence of people like self-described misogynist Andrew Tate, and there are calls for his content to be taken down. Anita was joined by Michael Conroy, founder of Men at Work, which works with teachers and boys in schools to challenge sexist and misogynistic content online and Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism project who campaigns for gender equality to discuss how we can protect our children from, especially boys, from this.Journalist and disability activist Lucy Edwards has just published her debut fiction book, Ella Jones vs the Sun Stealer, a mystery aimed at younger readers. It tells the story of 12-year-old Ella Jones who has been blind for two years and is navigating her new world with the help of her guide dog Maisie, her sister Poppy and her best friend Finn. She joined Krupa to talk about the book and her experiences sharing her own story online.We discuss the extraordinary story of how and why an autistic woman was locked up in a mental health hospital for 45 years. For 25 of those she was in long term segregation. Nuala McGovern talked to reporter Carolyn Atkinson about how the woman was eventually freed and to campaigner Alexis Quinn who is autistic and spent three years in a mental health hospital including time in segregation before she escaped. She now campaigns for the Restraint Reduction Network charity about the more than 2,000 other autistic people and or those with learning disabilities who are still in mental health hospitals, many of whom shouldn't be. In May 2015, 20 year-old Mhairi Black was the youngest person for more than a century to become a Member of Parliament – and she then remained a Westminster MP until standing down at the 2024 election. A new BBC documentary follows her last six months in that role and looks at what her future could hold in a new career as a stand-up comedian. Now 30, she joined Anita Rani to reflect on her years in Parliament and what she'd like to see change about the way it functions.Nieve Ella is currently on tour, playing to packed venues and solidifying her place as a rising star in indie music. With a distinctive online presence and an ever-growing fanbase, she's proving that Gen Z artists are reshaping the industry on their own terms. Nieve performed the track Sweet Nothings with Finn Marlow. Presenter: Anita Rani

What does the number of hours women spend doing housework have to do with the orgasm gap?! According to bestselling author and the founder of the Everyday sexism campaign, Laura Bates, a lot. In this episode, Emma sits down with Laura to discuss the systemic ways in which gender inequality remains entrenched in our society - from the social pressure on women to deprioritise their pleasure, to the routinisation of casual sexism, to the rise of extremist, misogynistic ideologies. But it is not all doom and gloom, they end the discussion looking at the reasons for staying hopeful and what we can all do to fix the system, not the women. Book tickets to the next live recording of the Sex Talks podcast here. And subscribe to the Sex Talks Substack here.

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers has been urged to apologise for calling a BBC journalist "good girl" during a post-match interview. In response to a question by sports reporter Jane Lewis, Brendan Rodgers refused to answer and dismissed her saying "good girl."This is being called out as casual sexism. Are we not passed this in 2024 or is it alive and well? Kieran was joined by Hannah Quinn Mulligan, Journalist and farmer to discuss...

The rampant misogyny on display at GB News has caused widespread outrage - but has most of the debate completely missed the point?Laura Bates - founder of Everyday Sexism and author of Men Who Hate Women - tells us what this horrendous incident really exposes.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're joined by two brilliant writers to discuss the role feminism has played in Young Adult novels. Laura Bates, creator of Everyday Sexism and the author of Men Who Hate Women now brings us Sisters of Sword and Shadow, an epic YA fantasy reimagining Arthurian legend with a fearless sisterhood of knights. And Holly Bourne, bestselling author of Am I Normal Yet? and The Places I've Cried in Public, returns to our bookshelves with You Could Be So Pretty, a gripping dystopian thriller that puts modern beauty standards under the microscope. Together we talk through the challenges and opportunities YA fiction presents when engaging with feminism, and share some of our favourite recommendations for YA books that are written by and about women. -- This episode was produced by Hannah Love. Our music is Hustle by Kevin MacLeod from ⁠incompetech.com⁠, licensed by Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0

Join Mel and Michelle in this episode as they explore the concepts of benevolent bias and everyday sexism, and how they affect women in the workplace. They delve into the ways these issues can be addressed by leaders to ensure women are treated fairly. Tune in to learn how everyone can work towards a more equitable workplace.Links and ResourcesLead to Soar NetworkLead to Soar is a global online network for businesswomen, a podcast, and we host live-streaming and in person events to help women have a career that soars! The podcast is hosted by Mel Butcher (melbutcher.com) and Michelle Redfern (michelleredfern.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us on Maintaining Frame as we go through a video podcast called Pod Save America where the host talks with feminist and Everyday Sexism founder Laura Bates, author of the book Men Who Hate Women discusses her harrowing journey down the rabbit hole of the manosphere! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOh!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4148711/advertisement

Ava Santina is joined by founder of the Everyday Sexism project to discuss misogyny online and how influencers like Andrew Tate harm young boys. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Laura Bates has dedicated her life to addressing gender inequality. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and a Sunday Times Bestselling author. Laura has released five books including Girl Up, Misogynation, Men Who Hate Women and her most recent book, Fix the System, Not the Women. She works closely with politicians, businesses, schools, police forces and organisations from the Council of Europe to the United Nations to tackle gender inequality. Here, Laura talks to Annie about the problem with today's systems, shocking stories and statistics highlighted in her book and on the Everyday Sexism website, the ways her own life has changed doing this work, our relationship dynamics and how they can change, education, parenting and much more. No doubt every woman will recognise aspects of this conversation and everyone (of all genders) can learn something from it. Content warning: sexual abuse, rape and violent threats are all mentioned.You can buy Laura's book and find out about Everyday Sexism and her other work here: https://linktr.ee/laura_bates__The organisations which Laura mentions are here:Centre for Women's Justice: https://www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/Rights of Women: https://rightsofwomen.org.uk/Level Up: https://www.welevelup.org/Women for Women: https://www.womenforwomen.orgChanges is a deaf friendly podcast, transcripts can be accessed here: https://www.anniemacmanus.com/changes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robin takes on the headlines themselves, including the latest Catholic Church shockers. Special Guest: Laura Bates, author and founder of Everyday Sexism, on the results of this remarkable campaign.

SF: Dårlig ide at afskaffe 10. klasse. 3F Ungdomsformand: Risgaard-håndtering var elendig. Kommission vil afskaffe 10. klasse og oprette toårig ungdomsuddannelse. Skæbnemøde i fagbevægelsen – beslutter om advokatundersøgelse om Lizette Risgaard – forløb skal fremrykkes. Everyday Sexism kritiserer DR i forbindelse med dating-programmet 'Vild Kærlighed'. Værter: Jacob Grosen & Kasper HarboeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On International Women's Day we talk to the foreign secretary, James Cleverly MP, as he travels to Sierra Leone to launch the UK's new international women and girls strategy. Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton is one the most senior fire fighters in the UK. The current Chief Fire Officer of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service has in her 22 year career covered major incidents such as the London Bridge terror attack, the Finsbury Park terror attack and the aftermath of Grenfell. Last month on Woman's Hour we discussed the fire service after recent reports hit the headlines of allegations of bullying and sexual harassment of female fire fighters at different services. Last year, an independent review found the London Fire Brigade to be institutionally racist and misogynistic. Just seven percent of fire fighters are women and there are even less in high leadership roles. Sabrina joins Nuala to talk about her new book The Gender Bias The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How to Break Them, which unpicks why women are judged differently, and how we can tackle those biases, and also tells us whether she thinks the fire service has a problem with women. Sunday marked the end of the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, a golden weekend for Team GB women. Keely Hodgkinson retained her 800m title before team captain Jazmin Sawyers won a long jump Gold, earning her a first major title of her senior career with a world-leading jump of seven metres. Jazmin now holds the British Indoor record and joins Nuala. What is it like to be a poet, a woman and a performer of poetry at this particular moment in time? Kim Moore aims to answer this question in her new book Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism. The book contains poems from her collection All the Men I Never Married, for which she won the Forward prize last year. She explains to Nuala McGovern why poetry is the perfect medium for exploring sexism.

Episode #144 This week, Daisy dips her toe into the murky waters of sexism after listening to two very thought-provoking books by Laura Bates, who founded the Everyday Sexism Project. As usual, Terri offers some valuable insights and ideas about how we might better advocate for ourselves and others.  You can watch Laura's TED Talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_bates_everyday_sexism?language=en Her books are in the Plus catalogue (so free if you have an Audible membership) in the UK, possibly also elsewhere; the Plus catalogue varies quite a lot by country. Find out more about the Everyday Sexism Project and maybe add your story to the list here: https://everydaysexism.com/ Please consider helping us make more episodes by supporting Daisy on Patreon. https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetPatreon If you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave us a review on iTunes or whichever platform you listen on. It really helps new people hear about the podcast. Connect with and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube: https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetFB https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetIG https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetYT

Hey, Gang.  I spent the week before this broadcast reading the book and making my little notes.  The Book Club sessions will have pre-recorded audio of me going over each chapter. After the chapter, we'll have the studio line open for LaborHood callers to share their commentary/observations on the material.  Simultaneously, the broadcast is will be live via our Facebook page, Mr  William's LaborHood. You can also share a comment there to be quoted on the program   Reading this material must be preceded with a TRIGGER WARNING, CONTENT WARNING, PARENTAL ADVISORY AND CAUTION TAPE.  I personally find this book VERY constructive and worthwhile.  If you're comfortable, as a parent, I recommend sharing this book with teenage children across the gender spectrum.  Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexin Project. She has received the British Empire Medal, The WMC Digital Award from the Women's Media Center and the Georgina Henry Prize.  She has also been named in CNN's 10 Visionary Women List. 

This month's episode of the Divine Feminist is a special one, as Ceryn talks with Laura Bates about her work and experiences to date. Founder of The Everyday Sexism Project and author of eight books to date, Laura is involved with a number of programmes and campaigns that demand real change from those at the very top of our societies, and works in schools across the UK and beyond to educate young people about sexism, consent and sexual violence. Her latest book, No Accident, is the second of her fictional works and, though aimed at young adults, provides a powerful and important perspective on these subjects and their impacts upon young people today. Episode NotesIf you would like to know more about Laura Bates and her work, check out Laura's website of that of The Everyday Sexism Project. Meanwhile, Laura's books include:No Accident (also known as The Trial)Men Who Hate WomenThe BurningMisogynationGirl UpEveryday SexismFix the System, Not The WomenWithin this episode, Laura mentions a number of resources for those concerned about their online safety. They are:The Women's Media Centre Speech Project The online safety page at Feminine Frequency  Charity Glitch If you would like to learn more about Ceryn and her work, head to her website Meanwhile, to keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

We are smashing the patriarchy in this episode with the help of Laura Bates - campaigner, writer, speaker, and all-round excellent woman. She explains why she started the Everyday Sexism project, and we discuss how the landscape has changed in the decade since. Laura tells us what she'd change tomorrow if she had a magic wand, and we ask her advice on how to raise our kids so they don't turn out to be terrible sexists. There's some real talk about pornography, and the effect it's having on men's behaviour during sex. As usual we round off with some ludicrous Scummy Mummy Confessions, this time involving a date fail, ladder theft, and ham. Laura's brilliant book, Fix the System Not the Women, is out now. Check out everydaysexism.com and follow her on instagram @laura_bates__.@laura_bates__.Come and see our live show in 2023! We are on our way to Lincoln, Kettering, Redhill, Catford, Camberley, Cheltenham, Lancaster, Caernarfon, Burnley, Milton Keynes, Winchester, Newcastle, Lichfield, Rotherham, Twickenham, Leeds, Birmingham, Crewe, Lowestoft... And new dates are being added all the time! Keep an eye on scummymummies.com for announcements and tickets. **WE HAVE A SHOP!** Visit scummymummiesshop.com for our ace t-shirts, mugs, washbags, sweatshirts and beach towels. FREE UK DELIVERY! We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to the bluedot podcast with Chris Hawkins.bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022.Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent.In this episode, you'll be hearing Helen Pankhurst in conversation with Laura Bates, the author and creator of Everyday Sexism. This talk was one of three hosted by Helen at bluedot 2022 as part of our Pankhurst Sessions afternoon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Laura Bates is the founder of the revolutionary Everyday Sexism Project. For the last decade, the website has provided a space for women to speak up about their experiences of sexism.Bates' latest book, Fix the System, Not the Women exposes the ways that women are blamed for the violence and oppression inflicted upon us.Why did she walk home alone at night? Why is she not doing enough to secure her place at the table? Why haven't women overcome all the odds stacked against us?Bates tells Laura Kelly and Eliza Pitkin that this blame game has distracted us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was just not built for women. In this edition of BetterPod she discusses the solutions that already exist to make the future better for women – if only they'd be enacted.BetterPod is brought to you by The Big Issue's Future Generations team. Through the Future Generations team, we offer a platform for exciting young journalists from underrepresented backgrounds to address the biggest issues facing us today. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

From policing and politics to education and the media, systemic gender prejudice is embedded in the pillars of our society. Potential solutions often require change from the women experiencing the problem rather than the systems that perpetuate the problem.Whether for walking home alone at night or for not demanding a seat at the table, we blame women for not overcoming odds that are stacked against them. In the wake of violent behaviour from men, we turn to women to change lifestyles and behaviours.By combining overlapping themes from thousands of personal stories with shocking statistics, Everyday Sexism founder, Laura Bates demonstrates why asking women for change is not fair or effective. We need to fix the system, not the women. Here with Pragya Agarwal, Laura paints a shocking picture of gender inequality in Britain today and explores how society can usher in systemic change.#RSAgenderinjusticeBecome an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueembDonate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNBFollow RSA Events on Instagram: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEventsLike RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsoff... 

Writer, activist, and founder of The Everyday Sexism Project Laura Bates joins Jameela this week to discuss what has changed since she started Everyday Sexism 10 years ago, the ways that all the authorities/systems are failing women, how rape is practically decriminalized in the UK, how men's issues are important to feminism as well, the importance of sharing stories, and more.  Check out Laura Bates' most recent book - Fix The System, Not the WomenYou can follow Everyday Sexism on Twitter @everydaysexism  You can find transcripts for this episode here: https://www.earwolf.com/show/i-weigh-with-jameela-jamil/I Weigh has amazing merch - check it out at podswag.com Jameela is on Instagram and Twitter @JameelaJamil And make sure to check out I Weigh's Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube for more! 

Fi and Jane are live at the Hay Festival and joined by writer Laura Bates, founder of Everyday Sexism. They're also accompanied by an audience under the BBC Marquee in a field in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. Laura talks to Fi and Jane about her new book, Fix the System, Not the Women, looking at solving society's ingrained misogyny. She also reflects on a decade of cataloguing women's through the Everyday Sexism project. Before Laura joins them on stage, Fi remembers her time as a playing card and Jane's post has given her a bit of an emotional roller-coaster ride. Get in touch: fortunately.podcast@bbc.co.uk

In this Podcast Clive and Anna consider the issues raised by the Everyday Sexism website set up by writer Laura Bates. Despite many changes in our society over the years there are still many instances of sexism in everyday life. In particular they discuss sexism at universities which is a concern for Anna who will be starting at university this year.

In this Podcast Clive and Anna consider the issues raised by the Everyday Sexism website set up by writer Laura Bates. Despite many changes in our society over the years there are still many instances of sexism in everyday life. In particular they discuss sexism at universities which is a concern for Anna who will be starting at university this year.

In this Podcast Clive and Anna consider the issues raised by the Everyday Sexism website set up by writer Laura Bates. Despite many changes in our society over the years there are still many instances of sexism in everyday life. In particular they discuss sexism at universities which is a concern for Anna who will be starting at university this year.

Welcome back to Series 3 of Good Influence!This is the podcast where each week we'll meet a guest who'll help us pay attention to something we should know about, but maybe don't. This week we're talking about sexism; daily examples of sexism, how those link together, and link to other forms of discrimination on the systems we have to tackle to make change. This episode does feature issues on language related to gender discrimination as well as serious sexual and physical violence. Please listen with care and put your mental health first.Laura Bates is an author, journalist and is founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, which launched in 2012 and now consists of hundreds of thousands of reader submitted stories of gender inequality. Laura is also a contributor to Women Under Siege, an organisation working to combat sexual violence in war and conflict zones around the world. Her published books include titles such as Everyday Sexism, Men Who Hate Women, and her latest release, Fix the System Not the Women, which lays out patterns of systemic misogyny and debunks the myth that acts of violence towards women are ever just isolated incidents.If you want to learn more, here's where to find Laura and her recommendations: Instagram: @laura_bates__Website: everydaysexism.comSomething to read: Rage Becomes Her - Soraya ChemalySomething to watch: Unbelievable on Netflix Something to listen to: Women Resisting Violence Podcast, Ep 3 'Step Up Migrant Women' Get involved and join in the conversation:Follow @gemmastyles @goodinfluencegs and send in your messages and questions to goodinfluencepod@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's been ten years since the writer and activist Laura Bates founded the Everyday Sexism project, giving a platform to thousands of women to document their everyday experiences of sexism, harassment and assault. In her new book, ‘Fix the System Not the Women' she argues we have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things, how to fix themselves, how to stay safe, it hasn't worked because women were never the problem in the first place. She is calling for systematic reform of our key institutions and societal systems that she says are failing to protect women. Spanish women with severe Menstrual symptoms could be entitled to three days of leave a month - extended to five in some circumstances - if a draft bill going through the Spanish parliament is approved. It would make it the first legal entitlement of its kind in Europe. The bill is part of a package of reforms that could also overturn laws passed by the previous government, including 16 and 17 year old girls no longer needing parental consent to have an abortion. Maria Ramirez is a journalist and Deputy Managing Editor from ElDiario an online investigative and political news service based in Madrid. A new exhibition exploring female spiritual beings in world belief and mythological traditions around the globe opens at the British Museum this week. Feminine power: the divine to the demonic is the first exhibition of its kind to bring together ancient sculpture, sacred artifacts and contemporary art from six continents. It will look at how femininity has been perceived across the world, and how feminine power has been used in deities, goddesses, demons, saints and other spiritual beings. Belinda Crerar is Exhibition Curator at the British Museum and Dr Janina Ramirez is a British Art Historian and author of Goddess a book for children written to accompany this exhibition Two-time Grammy nominee Beth Nielsen Chapman has had a career spanning 40 years. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016, Nashville-based Beth, has released more than a dozen albums and written number one hits and songs recorded by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Bette Midler, Elton John and Neil Diamond. Beth joins Krupa to discuss her music and to perform her bluesy new single ‘Hey Girl' (We Can Deal With It) an anthemic reaction to the ‘Me Too' movement, a song Beth calls her “celebratory shout out to our sisters making their way in the world.” Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Laura Bates Interviewed Guest: Maria Ramirez Interviewed Guest: Belinda Crerar Interviewed Guest: Dr Janina Ramirez Interviewed Guest: Beth Nielsen Chapman

This week, we're joined by Laura Bates. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism project and bestselling author of several books about violence against women, including her latest: Fix the System Not the Women. In this episode, Laura joins Olivia to discuss how systemic misogyny affects women's relationships, why we need to keep talking about sexual violence in schools and beyond, and what men can do to help.https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/laura-bates-misogyny-relationships-rape-b2078179.htmlCheck out the Millennial Love podcast on all major platforms and Independent TV, and keep up to date @Millennial_Love on Instagram and TikTok.If you, or someone you know, have been affected by child sexual abuse, call Childline on their helpline for children and young people who need to talk. Phone: 0800 1111The Victim Support helpline provides emotional and practical help to victims or witnesses of any crime, whether or not it has been reported to the police. Phone: 0808 16 89 111 (24/7)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's podzine, the glorious Laura Bates joins our Mick to rage against the sexism machine. The feminist writer, activist, founder of Everyday Sexism and author has written another book – Fix The System, Not The Women – and it's both vital and full of righteous fury. Hannah's been chatting to Julie Owen Moylan about her debut novel That Green-Eyed Girl, about getting her first break in publishing over the age of 60, and about making the big leap over the class barrier.In Jenny Off The Blocks, it's Emma Hayes appreciation time. Again. And no one's complaining. And in Rated or Dated, we're asking how good does Steven Spielberg's sci-fi mega-blockbuster E.T. look at 40? Tricky, given E.T., the delightful sweaty sausage/joke shop turd protagonist, always looked 187 anyway.Plus, abortion, poverty, class, the menopause and *spits* Allison Pearson in the Bush Telegraph.And here's that link Hannah promises: https://twitter.com/RobynVinter/status/1521872761689419777.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Author and founder of Everyday Sexism, Laura Bates joins Ashley on this week's episode of Mum's The Word. They're talking all about how to raise our sons and daughters, the differences in parental leave, if 50/50 parenting is ever possible and how to improve sex education in schools.Laura's new book 'Fix the System, Not the Women' is available in hardback and ebook from 12th May 2022. If you want to ask Ashley a question, get in touch at askmumsthewordpod@gmail.com---A Create Podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

O Livra-te veio até Braga para conversar com a Cátia Vieira, autora do Lola e dona de algumas capas mais lindas que já vimos, sobre livros de Não Ficção. Falámos de Joan Didion, feminismo, sexismo, Joan Didion, histórias de vida, e ainda tivemos um convidado surpresa (woof woof). Livros mencionados neste episódio: - Hook, Line, And Sinker, Tessa Bailey (2:22) - White Album, Joan Didion (2:52) - Writers & Lovers, Lily King (3:08) - Coração tão Branco, Javier Marías (3:32) - Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday (3:50) - Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham (12:45) - Born a Crime, Trevor Noah (14:05) - Becoming, Michelle Obama (14:32) - Know My Name, Chanel Miller (15:16) - Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino (16:00) - The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (17:16) - Quiet, Susan Cain (20:23) - Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist, Richard Shepherd (21:43) - This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay (21:57) - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb (22:26) - Confessions of an Advertising Man, David Ogilvy (23:26) - Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, Jonathan Van Ness (23:57) - Diários da Princesa, Carrie Fisher (24:25) - One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, Craig Brown (24:51) - I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays, Sloane Crosley (25:50) - E Depois a Louca Sou Eu, Tati Bernardi (21:19) - I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Nora Ephron (26:47) - Educated, Tara Westover (29:23) - I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Sylvie Simmons (30:33) - Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, David Sheff (31:44) - Just Kids, Patti Smith (33:00) - Notes to Self, Emilie Pine (35:18) - Rita Lee: Uma Autobiografia, Rita Lee (36:27) - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, Viv Albertine (38:53) - Room to Dream, David Lynch (41:09) - On Writing, Stephen King (43:20) - Leave Your Mark, Aliza Licht (44:58) - #Girlboss, Sophia Amoruso (45:20) - Feminist City: A Field Guide, Leslie Kern (46:19) - Everyday Sexism, Laura Bates (47:57) - Millennial Love, Olivia Petter (50:23) - Let Me Tell You What I Mean, Joan Didion (56:45) - Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay (57:19) - Miami, Joan Didion (01:07:30) - Where I Was From, Joan Didion (01:07:38) - Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon (01:07:46) - Face It, Debbie Harry (01:08:18) - Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappé (01:08:35) - On Cats, Charles Bukowski (01:08:44) - Against Everything: Essays, Mark Greif (01:08:55) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova/ twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/RitaDaNova [a imagem do podcast é da autoria da maravilhosa, incrível e talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com]

Prémios literários: são influência ou não? Neste Apoio ao Leitor sugerido por vocês, discutimos este e outros temas dentro do universo que são estes prémios. Para além disso, revelamos também os livros do Clube do Livra-te de Abril. Será no início do episódio? No fim? Têm de ouvir. ✨ Livros de Abril do Clube do Livra-te: ✨ - A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (3:54) // Escolha da Rita - Lizzie & Dante, Mary Bly (6:00) // Escolha da Joana Livros mencionados neste episódio: - Everyday Sexism, Laura Bates (0:59) - Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (1:29) - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (4:00) - Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro (12:50) - The Remains of the Day / Never Let Me Go / Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (14:39) - Pão de Açúcar, Afonso Reis Cabral (18:20) - Debaixo de Algum Céu, Nuno Camarneiro (19:18) - O Teu Rosto Será o Último, João Ricardo Pedro (19:28) - Short Movies, Gonçalo M. Tavares (21:55) - O Menino que Não Gostava de Ler, Susanna Tamaro (24:00) ________________ Enviem as vossas questões ou sugestões para livratepodcast@gmail.com. Encontrem-nos nas redes sociais: www.instagram.com/julesdsilva www.instagram.com/ritadanova/ twitter.com/julesxdasilva twitter.com/RitaDaNova [a imagem do podcast é da autoria da maravilhosa, incrível e talentosa Mariana Cardoso, que podem encontrar em marianarfpcardoso@hotmail.com]

January 27, 2022--Johanna welcomes two guests: Andrea Press, author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism; and Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of Gender(s), a witty examination of the true queerness of gender and gendering.

On this week's 51%, we hit the books. University of Virginia Professor Andrea Press explains how today's media can better represent women in her book, Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. And Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Take the Lead's Gloria Feldt about her latest title, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good. Guests: Andrea Press, University of Virginia professor and co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism; Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead and author of Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone’s Good 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It’s produced by Jesse King, our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for tuning in, I'm Jesse King. We've got a pair of interviews with some fantastic authors today — and we're going to start by getting a little meta and talking about the media. The media we consume can be a powerful thing: it can reflect the cultural and social norms of our time, make us feel heard and seen, and challenge society by exposing audiences to new ideas. So how is media faring when it comes to women? Well, if you ask our first guest, not too great — but it's complicated in this digital age. Andrea Press is a professor of media studies and sociology at the University of Virginia, and her new book with Francesca Tripodi — titled Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms — is out now on the State University of New York Press. In it, the pair explore how feminist messaging is blunted (or in some cases, created) in its consumption, and how media can better represent women of all backgrounds. Press says the idea for the book started with an observation she and Tripodi made years ago. “There was this pervasive idea in the culture that feminist activism had been successful and was finished, and there was not an ongoing problem. And that contradicted many experiences that women were having in their everyday lives,” Press explains. “And so, as sociologists, we were really interested in that disconnect between experience, and the way people understood their experience, and acted upon their experience. And as media scholars, we felt the media were playing an important role in this disconnect. Just to start off at the beginning, what do you define as media-ready feminism? Well, media-ready feminism was what we found when we examined the iteration of feminism in different media platforms. And the way we define media-ready feminism is a feminism that’s focused on the struggles of largely white, very affluent, successful women in the culture. It's a version of feminism that kind of downplays the need for revolutionary change and sort of focuses on much more smaller reforms needed, but purports the idea that feminism is largely an accomplished goal. A good example of media-ready feminism would be the recent #Metoo movement, where we had a focus on the struggles of very glamorous, mostly white, affluent actresse

On this week's 51%, we hit the books. University of Virginia Professor Andrea Press explains how today's media can better represent women in her book, Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. And Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Take the Lead's Gloria Feldt about her latest title, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good. Guests: Andrea Press, University of Virginia professor and co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism; Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead and author of Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King, our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is "Lolita" by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for tuning in, I'm Jesse King. We've got a pair of interviews with some fantastic authors today — and we're going to start by getting a little meta and talking about the media. The media we consume can be a powerful thing: it can reflect the cultural and social norms of our time, make us feel heard and seen, and challenge society by exposing audiences to new ideas. So how is media faring when it comes to women? Well, if you ask our first guest, not too great — but it's complicated in this digital age. Andrea Press is a professor of media studies and sociology at the University of Virginia, and her new book with Francesca Tripodi — titled Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms — is out now on the State University of New York Press. In it, the pair explore how feminist messaging is blunted (or in some cases, created) in its consumption, and how media can better represent women of all backgrounds. Press says the idea for the book started with an observation she and Tripodi made years ago. "There was this pervasive idea in the culture that feminist activism had been successful and was finished, and there was not an ongoing problem. And that contradicted many experiences that women were having in their everyday lives," Press explains. "And so, as sociologists, we were really interested in that disconnect between experience, and the way people understood their experience, and acted upon their experience. And as media scholars, we felt the media were playing an important role in this disconnect. Just to start off at the beginning, what do you define as media-ready feminism? Well, media-ready feminism was what we found when we examined the iteration of feminism in different media platforms. And the way we define media-ready feminism is a feminism that's focused on the struggles of largely white, very affluent, successful women in the culture. It's a version of feminism that kind of downplays the need for revolutionary change and sort of focuses on much more smaller reforms needed, but purports the idea that feminism is largely an accomplished goal. A good example of media-ready feminism would be the recent #Metoo movement, where we had a focus on the struggles of very glamorous, mostly white, affluent actresses – who did experience horrible instances of sexual harassment, and often sexual assault, at the hands of a very powerful and wealthy media producer Harvey Weinstein. It was still hard to get the story covered, and I don't want to downplay the struggles the New York Times reporters and Ronan Farrow, who's also very powerful and wealthy and a scion of Hollywood royalty, had to go through to get mainstream media to actually cover this story. It was hard. But it was impossible when the label “me too” was coined 11 years earlier by the African-American social worker Tarana Burke to talk about the struggles of her clients, who were distinctly less powerful, wealthy, and media-ready glamorous than the Hollywood actresses that we read so much about in the #Metoo movement. And that's an example of how feminism needs to be media-ready to get into media coverage in mainstream media. When a form of media or a particular message isn't media-ready, how is it typically received by people? How does that back-and-forth usually go? Well, we are scholars of the media audience, so it's where sociology meets media, and we're exactly interested in that moment where viewers and media users interpret what they're seeing. There isn't really one answer to that – we have instances in the book where women see through the sort of media-ready aspects of feminism presented in the media, and instances where they don't. So for example, we have a chapter on work, family balance, and the way media represent that. And we talked about an episode of what was formerly a very popular show, Desperate Housewives, and about one of its characters, who had been a super successful advertising executive, who left her career to have four children. She has to go back to work because her husband loses his job. And it's an interesting episode, because it talks about how hard it was to get the unemployed husband to step up and do childcare, and how difficult it was to get hired when she ended up having baby in tow at the interview, and what she experienced in the workplace being a very visible, working mother. And what we found in that chapter, when we interviewed older women who had been through very similar experiences, they really understood this as a structural problem, something that needed ongoing efforts and ongoing activism to address. And younger women, who had not been through these experiences themselves, sort of glossed over the issue and were not really able to identify this as an area where feminist activism and struggle was needed. Tell me about some of the other forms of media that you looked at in this book, and some of your other findings here. Well, we have a chapter on Game of Thrones, which we thought was very interesting text. You have queens and dragon rulers and, you know, very powerful women – who still were represented according to some of the norms of the way mainstream media often represents women: they were younger than you would expect a ruler to be, for example, they were highly sexualized in the way they were portrayed. And the norms of representing a sexual woman were very predictable according to mainstream media: they were most often white, they were most often blonde, they were most often thinner than the average woman. And so we were really interested in how audience members received these images. Did they focus on women's power? Did they focus on stereotypical representations of women being highly sexualized? There was also a lot of sexual violence in that text. And we wondered if people noticed and found it disturbing, and sort of commented on it in their viewership. And we found both: people commented on how strong the women were, but tended, really not, for the most part, to notice the sexualization and the sexual violence, which even for mainstream television and film is pretty extreme. It is accepted by audience members because it is so pervasive in media representations to have women be highly sexualized, and to represent violence against women as a part of business as usual in our society. Now, we've been speaking about shows that were created than offered to the public, but a lot of today's media is also created within its audience. Can you talk a little bit about what you've been finding on that front, in terms of social media, and more just the way we engage with each other? Well, we have two very interesting chapters in that regard. One is on Wikipedia, which, of course, is the people's encyclopedia, created by the people. And you would imagine the norms of representation on Wikipedia to be egalitarian, but that is not what we found, and broader scholarship on Wikipedia has confirmed this. There actually is an under-representation, which is very systematic, of women and of people of color, of their achievements. Their standards of notability are much higher on Wikipedia, and repeated attempts to get notable women – and especially women of color – represented in that encyclopedia get torn down, they get deleted by the central core of editors that spends a lot of time deciding if people's entries are legitimate or not. And we don't have the answer to why this happens, but we do have a lot of data illustrating that it does happen, and it happens systematically. And of course, this has quite an impact on society, because we have armies of schoolchildren turning to Wikipedia to try to discover who is important in our culture, in our history. If women are not being included in this record, I think that is a very strong message we are sending our children, and it's something we need to be aware of and probably take some steps to rectify. But that is continuing to happen. We also looked at dating apps. We did as series of interviews with college students who use Tinder, and one of the things we found with Tinder is that there is an implicit agreement to sexual activity. There was a lot of to-do in Babe Magazine about a young woman who went on a date with a well-known celebrity, and there was this implicit idea that she was consenting to sexual activity by going on this date. And that is what we found to be an underlying norm of Tinder use – that there was an implicit consent assumed to sexual activity by both men and women going on Tinder dates. And we thought that was interesting. And the sexual assault epidemic on college campuses is not unrelated. I thought that was a particularly like interesting part of the book as well, just because, with dating apps, they're often spoken about as a way for women to take hold of their sexuality, or to have some sort of control over their relationships, and to have some choice there. But at the same time, a lot of people are interpreting swiping right as like, “You think I'm attractive. Done deal.” Swipe right for assault is the name of our chapter. So as you're doing these studies, was there a particular part that connected with you, or that you were particularly surprised by? I would say we were surprised by quite a bit of what we found in this book. And I go back to our original impetus for the book: I mean, we really didn't understand why people did not identify the ongoing need for feminist activism and reform in the culture, and we felt it involved an ignoring of the experiences of everyday sexism – that women do confront sexual harassment, they confront discrimination, they confront an inordinate set of burdens when combining work and family that's not shared by men in their lives. And what was keeping people from identifying this as gender inequality and identifying the need to change this kind of inequality. Seeing that the media do not present it as such, that they gloss over pervasive gender inequality, and they continually support the idea that feminism is no longer needed. That is something that we didn't really expect to find so strongly across media platforms, but it added up to quite a system. And we felt like we were getting into the real inner workings of the way a patriarchy is reproduced. And that's what we felt we found. That kind of goes into one of my next questions. So if audience reaction plays a role in creating or changing the meaning of a piece, or even what goes out there, how can we better represent feminist ideas in media, and more accurately show these everyday sexisms? Well, I think media producers – and it's great to be in an interview here with a media producer – I think we all need to be including media producers much more conscious of the tendency to downplay the continuing need for struggle around gender equity. Because the data show that there is a continuing need for struggle around gender equity. There is harassment, there is assault, there is discrimination. There is a double standard. I didn't talk about this, but we look at double standards around sexual activity, and the way it's just assumed that women should engage in much less sexual activity than men – and they're still called a series of names when they're considered to be too highly sexual. And media need to really be committed to representing this data. I mean, it's there. We know, we're sociologists. It just doesn't really get covered in a way that people pay attention to it. I think the other much more pervasive issue, really, is that people need to not accept the way society is. And media play a big role in that. People need to understand that it is only through action and debate and activism that social change occurs. And we've seen vastly important social changes around issues of gender equity, around racial equity, around sexual discrimination and sexual equity because of the role activists have played in these issues. We see that we have an imperative to work to make our society better and more equitable. And people need to take that responsibility seriously. And I think the media can help this to happen. Our next guest is a New York Times bestselling author, a renowned speaker on women's rights and leadership, and a former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood. Gloria Feldt is also the co-founder and president of Take the Lead, a nonprofit bringing leadership training to women and businesses with the mission of achieving leadership gender parity across all sectors by 2025. In her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good, Feldt shares the stories of various women during the COVID-19 pandemic to detail the power of intention, and offers her tips to help women reach their goals. She spoke with Dr. Sharon Ufberg, co-founder of the California-based personal development company, Borrowed Wisdom, for her 51% segment, “Force of Nature.” How did Intentioning get started? I had started writing Intentioning before the pandemic, and I knew that I wanted to build on my previous work, which focused on women's relationship with power, and gave women leadership and power tools to thrive in the world as it is while changing it. I realized after I had been teaching from that book for almost 10 years, that once you have embraced your power, the next question that has to be asked is, “The power to what?” The power to what? And that's where intention comes in. And I found that, because women have, often, an ambivalent relationship with power, and have to really claim power or learn the power that they have in their hands and their hearts and their minds – that often they don't have the level of intentionality that boys and men are socialized to have. None of this is hardwired, by the way, I'm not saying men or women are better, or boys and girls are. But there are culturally learned traits that we have, and one of them is that we, as women, often don't even hold up our hands and say we want that position, because a.) maybe we don't see ourselves in it, and b.) we haven't been taught to self-advocate as much. So once you know you have power, you have to ask, “The power to what?” Now, I started writing the book by interviewing women, knowing that they would organically give me ideas for a new set of nine leadership tools, which indeed are in the book Intentioning. But when the pandemic came around, I also realized that I had to talk about the pandemics plural, as a social context within which we are all living right now: the pandemic of coronavirus and the pandemic of racial injustice that has been in this country forever, but we've finally started recognizing it on a larger basis. So the book then talks about the opportunity in disruption, the fact that disruption is also rebirth, that race and gender equality have to go forward together, and that traits we've learned as women that used to be things that set us back now can become our superpowers. And then I provide nine leadership and intentioning tools. So that's the framework of the book as it ended up. Books write themselves eventually, you know. You use inspiring individual women's stories to discuss the important concepts and leadership tools in the book. Can you share one with us? I'm going to share first, the story of Marina Arsenijevic. And Marina is a composer and a concert pianist. And the reason I want to share her story is it is such an amazing example of someone who could not practice her profession once the pandemic started. After all, a concert pianist can't perform if you can't go to where the people are. And instead of stepping back, she entered the most productive time of her professional life. She literally turned her house into a recording studio, she began to write music, more so than she had ever done before, because she had more time to do it. She began to, as she calls it, “I'm using my voice now,” so she's singing in some of her music. She has actually acquired, gosh, like 600,000 Instagram followers. And millions, millions of people watch her music on YouTube now. So she has never been more productive, creating new music, recording music. She literally rethought – she didn't change her purpose. In other words, her answer to the question of, “The power to what?” is still her music, but she found a completely different way to deliver it to the public. I love the book, and it's no surprise that my favorite leadership tool in the book is #7: be unreasonable. Can you tell us more about that one? I take it, first of all, from one of my all-time favorite quotes, that stood me in good stead through most of my life as a leader. And it's George Bernard Shaw, who said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adopt the world to Himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Now, he was a little bit of a feminist in his time, so I would sort of give him some slack and assume he would use “women” also, if he were saying that today. But I feel so much truth in that, so much reality in it. And some of the women that I profiled in this particular chapter are women like Charlotte George, who just took rejection after rejection after rejection, and turned it into two very profitable businesses. First, she co-founded Skagen, the watch company that's now been bought by Fossil. I used to have five or six of those watches, because they were so beautiful and affordable at the same time. And then, after she sold Skagen – she actually had skin cancer a couple of times – and so because she's outside a lot, she's an equestrian, she created a new company called Castle Denmark that designs and creates sunscreen, beautiful sunscreen clothing that you can wear outside and protect your body from the sun. So Charlotte is one of those women who, I will tell you, it's like she's just a force of nature. It's always about, “Well, what does the world need or want right now? I'm going to figure it out. And I'm going to do it, and I'm not going to adapt myself to the way it is.” The other woman that I am in awe of, I have to tell you, is Rupa Dash. And I hadn't ever heard of Rupa when she contacted me and asked me to speak at a conference that she put together at the Clinton Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, just a few months before everything shut down. So I'm glad I went – I was like, “Why would I go to Little Rock? It's hard to even get there from anywhere.” – and I was blown away by how she had taken every one of the world's biggest challenges, everything from food insecurity, to women's rights, to the environment, and she had created what she called “her moonshot.” And she's on a mission to engage all the women of the world in solving these problems. And never mind that people may say they're unsolvable. She's going to do it with her moonshots. I just know it, I feel it, it will happen. Take the Lead has a goal of pay parity by 2025. Are we going to make that 2025 parity deadline? What's the prognosis for making that goal? That's the big question right now, Sharon, but I believe we can do it, and I'll tell you why. So we were clipping along at a nice pace. We had moved from 18 percent of the top leadership positions when I co-founded Take the Lead in 2013, to about 25 percent before the pandemic. Now most of the data says that women have been set back by 10 years as a result of the pandemic – but the way I see it is this: that in times of massive disruption, you also have massive opportunity for rebirth, rethinking and reconsidering things. And even old institutions have to be open to new ideas, because otherwise they will not survive. And we now can see that it's perfectly possible for women and men to work from home if need be, to have flexible hours, to have flexible location, to be able to be more flexible in their work and be able to take care of their family responsibilities as well as their work responsibilities. These kinds of flexible accommodations have been asked for by women since we've been in the workforce in large numbers, and yet, our institutions have been very slow to adopt them. Well, now, they all know that it's actually to their advantage [to adopt them], and in fact, if they want to bring these talented women that they have invested in back into their workforce, they're going to have to have those flexibility opportunities, and they're going to have to provide family leave, and they're going to have to do many things that don't actually hurt their business. In fact, it adds to their bottom line ultimately, but they've been very reluctant and unwilling to try. I actually see that in the next three years – if we do it now, things don't just happen on their own, people have to make them happen – but if we gather together and we are absolutely committed to achieving gender parity by 2025, I believe we can still do it. I love your optimism, and I do believe in these moments of great change, great leaps are possible. So where can people find you, Gloria, and where can they find your book? People can get Intentioning at any of their favorite booksellers. You can find out more at my website, gloriafeldt.com. You can also find out about Take the Lead services, where we do training for individuals and companies, and also coaching, and provide many other kinds of programs and services at taketheleadwomen.com. I am a bit of a social media fiend, so people can always find me @gloriafeldt on any platform. You've been listening to 51%. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by me, Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. A big thanks to Andrea Press, Gloria Feldt, and Dr. Sharon Ufberg for taking part in this week's episodes. Thanks to you for joining us this week — until next time, I'm Jesse King for 51%.

On this week's 51%, we hit the books. University of Virginia Professor Andrea Press explains how today's media can better represent women in her book, Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism. And Dr. Sharon Ufberg speaks with Take the Lead's Gloria Feldt about her latest title, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good. Guests: Andrea Press, University of Virginia professor and co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism; Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead and author of Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King, our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is "Lolita" by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for tuning in, I'm Jesse King. We've got a pair of interviews with some fantastic authors today — and we're going to start by getting a little meta and talking about the media. The media we consume can be a powerful thing: it can reflect the cultural and social norms of our time, make us feel heard and seen, and challenge society by exposing audiences to new ideas. So how is media faring when it comes to women? Well, if you ask our first guest, not too great — but it's complicated in this digital age. Andrea Press is a professor of media studies and sociology at the University of Virginia, and her new book with Francesca Tripodi — titled Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms — is out now on the State University of New York Press. In it, the pair explore how feminist messaging is blunted (or in some cases, created) in its consumption, and how media can better represent women of all backgrounds. Press says the idea for the book started with an observation she and Tripodi made years ago. "There was this pervasive idea in the culture that feminist activism had been successful and was finished, and there was not an ongoing problem. And that contradicted many experiences that women were having in their everyday lives," Press explains. "And so, as sociologists, we were really interested in that disconnect between experience, and the way people understood their experience, and acted upon their experience. And as media scholars, we felt the media were playing an important role in this disconnect. Just to start off at the beginning, what do you define as media-ready feminism? Well, media-ready feminism was what we found when we examined the iteration of feminism in different media platforms. And the way we define media-ready feminism is a feminism that's focused on the struggles of largely white, very affluent, successful women in the culture. It's a version of feminism that kind of downplays the need for revolutionary change and sort of focuses on much more smaller reforms needed, but purports the idea that feminism is largely an accomplished goal. A good example of media-ready feminism would be the recent #Metoo movement, where we had a focus on the struggles of very glamorous, mostly white, affluent actresses – who did experience horrible instances of sexual harassment, and often sexual assault, at the hands of a very powerful and wealthy media producer Harvey Weinstein. It was still hard to get the story covered, and I don't want to downplay the struggles the New York Times reporters and Ronan Farrow, who's also very powerful and wealthy and a scion of Hollywood royalty, had to go through to get mainstream media to actually cover this story. It was hard. But it was impossible when the label “me too” was coined 11 years earlier by the African-American social worker Tarana Burke to talk about the struggles of her clients, who were distinctly less powerful, wealthy, and media-ready glamorous than the Hollywood actresses that we read so much about in the #Metoo movement. And that's an example of how feminism needs to be media-ready to get into media coverage in mainstream media. When a form of media or a particular message isn't media-ready, how is it typically received by people? How does that back-and-forth usually go? Well, we are scholars of the media audience, so it's where sociology meets media, and we're exactly interested in that moment where viewers and media users interpret what they're seeing. There isn't really one answer to that – we have instances in the book where women see through the sort of media-ready aspects of feminism presented in the media, and instances where they don't. So for example, we have a chapter on work, family balance, and the way media represent that. And we talked about an episode of what was formerly a very popular show, Desperate Housewives, and about one of its characters, who had been a super successful advertising executive, who left her career to have four children. She has to go back to work because her husband loses his job. And it's an interesting episode, because it talks about how hard it was to get the unemployed husband to step up and do childcare, and how difficult it was to get hired when she ended up having baby in tow at the interview, and what she experienced in the workplace being a very visible, working mother. And what we found in that chapter, when we interviewed older women who had been through very similar experiences, they really understood this as a structural problem, something that needed ongoing efforts and ongoing activism to address. And younger women, who had not been through these experiences themselves, sort of glossed over the issue and were not really able to identify this as an area where feminist activism and struggle was needed. Tell me about some of the other forms of media that you looked at in this book, and some of your other findings here. Well, we have a chapter on Game of Thrones, which we thought was very interesting text. You have queens and dragon rulers and, you know, very powerful women – who still were represented according to some of the norms of the way mainstream media often represents women: they were younger than you would expect a ruler to be, for example, they were highly sexualized in the way they were portrayed. And the norms of representing a sexual woman were very predictable according to mainstream media: they were most often white, they were most often blonde, they were most often thinner than the average woman. And so we were really interested in how audience members received these images. Did they focus on women's power? Did they focus on stereotypical representations of women being highly sexualized? There was also a lot of sexual violence in that text. And we wondered if people noticed and found it disturbing, and sort of commented on it in their viewership. And we found both: people commented on how strong the women were, but tended, really not, for the most part, to notice the sexualization and the sexual violence, which even for mainstream television and film is pretty extreme. It is accepted by audience members because it is so pervasive in media representations to have women be highly sexualized, and to represent violence against women as a part of business as usual in our society. Now, we've been speaking about shows that were created than offered to the public, but a lot of today's media is also created within its audience. Can you talk a little bit about what you've been finding on that front, in terms of social media, and more just the way we engage with each other? Well, we have two very interesting chapters in that regard. One is on Wikipedia, which, of course, is the people's encyclopedia, created by the people. And you would imagine the norms of representation on Wikipedia to be egalitarian, but that is not what we found, and broader scholarship on Wikipedia has confirmed this. There actually is an under-representation, which is very systematic, of women and of people of color, of their achievements. Their standards of notability are much higher on Wikipedia, and repeated attempts to get notable women – and especially women of color – represented in that encyclopedia get torn down, they get deleted by the central core of editors that spends a lot of time deciding if people's entries are legitimate or not. And we don't have the answer to why this happens, but we do have a lot of data illustrating that it does happen, and it happens systematically. And of course, this has quite an impact on society, because we have armies of schoolchildren turning to Wikipedia to try to discover who is important in our culture, in our history. If women are not being included in this record, I think that is a very strong message we are sending our children, and it's something we need to be aware of and probably take some steps to rectify. But that is continuing to happen. We also looked at dating apps. We did as series of interviews with college students who use Tinder, and one of the things we found with Tinder is that there is an implicit agreement to sexual activity. There was a lot of to-do in Babe Magazine about a young woman who went on a date with a well-known celebrity, and there was this implicit idea that she was consenting to sexual activity by going on this date. And that is what we found to be an underlying norm of Tinder use – that there was an implicit consent assumed to sexual activity by both men and women going on Tinder dates. And we thought that was interesting. And the sexual assault epidemic on college campuses is not unrelated. I thought that was a particularly like interesting part of the book as well, just because, with dating apps, they're often spoken about as a way for women to take hold of their sexuality, or to have some sort of control over their relationships, and to have some choice there. But at the same time, a lot of people are interpreting swiping right as like, “You think I'm attractive. Done deal.” Swipe right for assault is the name of our chapter. So as you're doing these studies, was there a particular part that connected with you, or that you were particularly surprised by? I would say we were surprised by quite a bit of what we found in this book. And I go back to our original impetus for the book: I mean, we really didn't understand why people did not identify the ongoing need for feminist activism and reform in the culture, and we felt it involved an ignoring of the experiences of everyday sexism – that women do confront sexual harassment, they confront discrimination, they confront an inordinate set of burdens when combining work and family that's not shared by men in their lives. And what was keeping people from identifying this as gender inequality and identifying the need to change this kind of inequality. Seeing that the media do not present it as such, that they gloss over pervasive gender inequality, and they continually support the idea that feminism is no longer needed. That is something that we didn't really expect to find so strongly across media platforms, but it added up to quite a system. And we felt like we were getting into the real inner workings of the way a patriarchy is reproduced. And that's what we felt we found. That kind of goes into one of my next questions. So if audience reaction plays a role in creating or changing the meaning of a piece, or even what goes out there, how can we better represent feminist ideas in media, and more accurately show these everyday sexisms? Well, I think media producers – and it's great to be in an interview here with a media producer – I think we all need to be including media producers much more conscious of the tendency to downplay the continuing need for struggle around gender equity. Because the data show that there is a continuing need for struggle around gender equity. There is harassment, there is assault, there is discrimination. There is a double standard. I didn't talk about this, but we look at double standards around sexual activity, and the way it's just assumed that women should engage in much less sexual activity than men – and they're still called a series of names when they're considered to be too highly sexual. And media need to really be committed to representing this data. I mean, it's there. We know, we're sociologists. It just doesn't really get covered in a way that people pay attention to it. I think the other much more pervasive issue, really, is that people need to not accept the way society is. And media play a big role in that. People need to understand that it is only through action and debate and activism that social change occurs. And we've seen vastly important social changes around issues of gender equity, around racial equity, around sexual discrimination and sexual equity because of the role activists have played in these issues. We see that we have an imperative to work to make our society better and more equitable. And people need to take that responsibility seriously. And I think the media can help this to happen. Our next guest is a New York Times bestselling author, a renowned speaker on women's rights and leadership, and a former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood. Gloria Feldt is also the co-founder and president of Take the Lead, a nonprofit bringing leadership training to women and businesses with the mission of achieving leadership gender parity across all sectors by 2025. In her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take the Lead for Everyone's Good, Feldt shares the stories of various women during the COVID-19 pandemic to detail the power of intention, and offers her tips to help women reach their goals. She spoke with Dr. Sharon Ufberg, co-founder of the California-based personal development company, Borrowed Wisdom, for her 51% segment, “Force of Nature.” How did Intentioning get started? I had started writing Intentioning before the pandemic, and I knew that I wanted to build on my previous work, which focused on women's relationship with power, and gave women leadership and power tools to thrive in the world as it is while changing it. I realized after I had been teaching from that book for almost 10 years, that once you have embraced your power, the next question that has to be asked is, “The power to what?” The power to what? And that's where intention comes in. And I found that, because women have, often, an ambivalent relationship with power, and have to really claim power or learn the power that they have in their hands and their hearts and their minds – that often they don't have the level of intentionality that boys and men are socialized to have. None of this is hardwired, by the way, I'm not saying men or women are better, or boys and girls are. But there are culturally learned traits that we have, and one of them is that we, as women, often don't even hold up our hands and say we want that position, because a.) maybe we don't see ourselves in it, and b.) we haven't been taught to self-advocate as much. So once you know you have power, you have to ask, “The power to what?” Now, I started writing the book by interviewing women, knowing that they would organically give me ideas for a new set of nine leadership tools, which indeed are in the book Intentioning. But when the pandemic came around, I also realized that I had to talk about the pandemics plural, as a social context within which we are all living right now: the pandemic of coronavirus and the pandemic of racial injustice that has been in this country forever, but we've finally started recognizing it on a larger basis. So the book then talks about the opportunity in disruption, the fact that disruption is also rebirth, that race and gender equality have to go forward together, and that traits we've learned as women that used to be things that set us back now can become our superpowers. And then I provide nine leadership and intentioning tools. So that's the framework of the book as it ended up. Books write themselves eventually, you know. You use inspiring individual women's stories to discuss the important concepts and leadership tools in the book. Can you share one with us? I'm going to share first, the story of Marina Arsenijevic. And Marina is a composer and a concert pianist. And the reason I want to share her story is it is such an amazing example of someone who could not practice her profession once the pandemic started. After all, a concert pianist can't perform if you can't go to where the people are. And instead of stepping back, she entered the most productive time of her professional life. She literally turned her house into a recording studio, she began to write music, more so than she had ever done before, because she had more time to do it. She began to, as she calls it, “I'm using my voice now,” so she's singing in some of her music. She has actually acquired, gosh, like 600,000 Instagram followers. And millions, millions of people watch her music on YouTube now. So she has never been more productive, creating new music, recording music. She literally rethought – she didn't change her purpose. In other words, her answer to the question of, “The power to what?” is still her music, but she found a completely different way to deliver it to the public. I love the book, and it's no surprise that my favorite leadership tool in the book is #7: be unreasonable. Can you tell us more about that one? I take it, first of all, from one of my all-time favorite quotes, that stood me in good stead through most of my life as a leader. And it's George Bernard Shaw, who said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adopt the world to Himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Now, he was a little bit of a feminist in his time, so I would sort of give him some slack and assume he would use “women” also, if he were saying that today. But I feel so much truth in that, so much reality in it. And some of the women that I profiled in this particular chapter are women like Charlotte George, who just took rejection after rejection after rejection, and turned it into two very profitable businesses. First, she co-founded Skagen, the watch company that's now been bought by Fossil. I used to have five or six of those watches, because they were so beautiful and affordable at the same time. And then, after she sold Skagen – she actually had skin cancer a couple of times – and so because she's outside a lot, she's an equestrian, she created a new company called Castle Denmark that designs and creates sunscreen, beautiful sunscreen clothing that you can wear outside and protect your body from the sun. So Charlotte is one of those women who, I will tell you, it's like she's just a force of nature. It's always about, “Well, what does the world need or want right now? I'm going to figure it out. And I'm going to do it, and I'm not going to adapt myself to the way it is.” The other woman that I am in awe of, I have to tell you, is Rupa Dash. And I hadn't ever heard of Rupa when she contacted me and asked me to speak at a conference that she put together at the Clinton Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, just a few months before everything shut down. So I'm glad I went – I was like, “Why would I go to Little Rock? It's hard to even get there from anywhere.” – and I was blown away by how she had taken every one of the world's biggest challenges, everything from food insecurity, to women's rights, to the environment, and she had created what she called “her moonshot.” And she's on a mission to engage all the women of the world in solving these problems. And never mind that people may say they're unsolvable. She's going to do it with her moonshots. I just know it, I feel it, it will happen. Take the Lead has a goal of pay parity by 2025. Are we going to make that 2025 parity deadline? What's the prognosis for making that goal? That's the big question right now, Sharon, but I believe we can do it, and I'll tell you why. So we were clipping along at a nice pace. We had moved from 18 percent of the top leadership positions when I co-founded Take the Lead in 2013, to about 25 percent before the pandemic. Now most of the data says that women have been set back by 10 years as a result of the pandemic – but the way I see it is this: that in times of massive disruption, you also have massive opportunity for rebirth, rethinking and reconsidering things. And even old institutions have to be open to new ideas, because otherwise they will not survive. And we now can see that it's perfectly possible for women and men to work from home if need be, to have flexible hours, to have flexible location, to be able to be more flexible in their work and be able to take care of their family responsibilities as well as their work responsibilities. These kinds of flexible accommodations have been asked for by women since we've been in the workforce in large numbers, and yet, our institutions have been very slow to adopt them. Well, now, they all know that it's actually to their advantage [to adopt them], and in fact, if they want to bring these talented women that they have invested in back into their workforce, they're going to have to have those flexibility opportunities, and they're going to have to provide family leave, and they're going to have to do many things that don't actually hurt their business. In fact, it adds to their bottom line ultimately, but they've been very reluctant and unwilling to try. I actually see that in the next three years – if we do it now, things don't just happen on their own, people have to make them happen – but if we gather together and we are absolutely committed to achieving gender parity by 2025, I believe we can still do it. I love your optimism, and I do believe in these moments of great change, great leaps are possible. So where can people find you, Gloria, and where can they find your book? People can get Intentioning at any of their favorite booksellers. You can find out more at my website, gloriafeldt.com. You can also find out about Take the Lead services, where we do training for individuals and companies, and also coaching, and provide many other kinds of programs and services at taketheleadwomen.com. I am a bit of a social media fiend, so people can always find me @gloriafeldt on any platform. You've been listening to 51%. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by me, Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. A big thanks to Andrea Press, Gloria Feldt, and Dr. Sharon Ufberg for taking part in this week's episodes. Thanks to you for joining us this week — until next time, I'm Jesse King for 51%.

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Unless it’s a spectacle, we don’t see it on screens. But as our guest author Andrea Press spells out in her new co-authored book Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism, everyday sexism is just accepted. The Me Too movement originated in The post How TV, Movies, and Social Media Maintain Invisible Sexism appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.

In this weeks episode, I am joined Abigail Bergstrom, writer and founder of Bergstrom Studio, a 360° publishing consultancy and literary agency which aims to help emerging writers find their voice, turn good ideas into published books and writers into published authors. The agency represents “thought-leading” authors such as Munroe Bergdorf, of gender manifesto Transitional (Bloomsbury), Florence Given of bestselling feminist manifesto Women Don't Owe You Pretty (Octopus), and Laura Bates of "Everyday Sexism" who Bergstrom published during her time at Simon & Schuster UK, among others. Prior to founding Bergstrom Studio, Abigail spent over a decade in the publishing industry with her last role being at Gleam digital talent Agency, where she set up and launched the literary arm of the business. Here she managed over thirty titles by her clients and worked to get them onto bestseller lists whilst also building some of today's biggest book brands.She was nominated for the Literary Agent of the Year at the 2020 British Book Awards, she was also listed in The Bookseller 150 and her debut novel, What a Shame, will be published by Hodder next year.In this episode, we talk about how she started her career, what it takes to publish a bestselling book and how to build a strong book brand.---My new book, Side Hustle in Progress: A Practical Guide to Kickstarting Your Business is published by HarperCollins and available to buy online and in all book shops.Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Side-Hustle-Progress-Practical-Kickstarting/dp/0008455007Audible: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Side-Hustle-Progress-Practical-Kickstarting/dp/B08NXTC5ZCWaterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/side-hustle-in-progress/elizabeth-ogabi/9780008455002You can find me on social: IG: @Forworkingladies @ElizabethOgabi Twitter: @Fwladies @ElizabethOgabi_You can sign up for my newsletter "The Snippet" here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Lala is joined by author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project Laura Bates to answer questions sent in by followers including, how can we change the minds of misogynistic men in our lives, how can we educate the young men in our lives, how to spot a fake feminist man, how to deal with sexism in the workplace, how can we shift the negative perceptions of feminism, how to keep the faith in good men existing......and much more.

A rap to call out the sexism out there! Written & Performed by Michelle Sorriso.[This is an excerpt from the podcast episode "Calling out Everyday Sexism!"]Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram for information & updates @OVARYActing_Pod and ask me all of your questions there!

Join Michelle in this very special episode of OVARY-Acting!, as she celebrates its 10th episode today! All surrounding the topic of Everyday Sexism, Michelle talks about her own experiences with it and analyses the cruel intentions behind sexist jokes. A fun game as well as a special surprise at the end await you! Definitely worth a listen!Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram for information & updates @OVARYActing_Pod and ask me all of your questions there!

This episode is for ladies to relate to and for men who want to learn! We meet with Sarah Boyle who recently started the Whistleback Campaign to empower women to feel safer on the streets. We touch upon the language bias between genders when it comes to work and leadership, we discuss the struggles of being a women in today's society but also share ways you can challenge the social stigmas and everyday sexism.

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In this episode, Nina Cnockaert-Guillou talks to Professor Katherine Forsyth and Dr Geraldine Parsons, both from the Department of Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow, about women in Celtic Studies. Prof. Forsyth and Dr Parsons were the organisers of a panel at the XVIth International Congress of Celtic Studies in July 2019 entitled "A more equal way forward for women in academia: the view from Celtic Studies" [link to the Congress programme; this panel was held on Tuesday, 23rd July 2019]. They explain why they organised this event, what came of it, and they discuss the place of women in Celtic Studies and academia, finishing with exciting film and book recommendations. Links & notes: Link: Ériu 2017 special issue. AHRC Research Council Centre for Doctoral Training in Glasgow (link). Dr Elva Johnston, University College Dublin. The Aurora programme, run by Advance HE. Dr Abigail Burnyeat, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. The Athena SWAN programme, by Advance HE too. Prof. Jerry Hunter, Bangor University. Prof. Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, NUI Galway. The Women's Classical Committee, founded in 2015 in the UK. Irish Research Council, “Gender Strategy & Actions document”; postgraduate scholarships (link). Questionnaire that was given at the session in Bangor: You know you are a female academic in Celtic Studies when… An opportunity to share any personal or observed experiences which are distinctive to female academics in Celtic Studies. What needs to change? Please share your views of ways in which women in Celtic Studies are currently disadvantaged — directly or indirectly (general, or specific, large or small, concrete or intangible). What are the most pressing issues? Article by The Guardian on the 2020 strike in Universities in the UK. Margaret Stokes & Eleanor Knott. Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, University of Cambridge. Arracht (2019) by Tomás Ó Súilleabháin (trailer) Prof. Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017) Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (2019) Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism (2015) Prof. Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story This episode is in English. Host: Nina Cnockaert-Guillou. Guests: Prof. Katherine Forsyth & Dr Geraldine Parsons. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/celticstudents/message

“Men often say to me: “So what can I do?” and the first thing I say to them is: listen.” In this episode, I have the privilege of talking all things inclusion to Rob Baker. He is a thought leader on diversity & inclusion and on engaging men to support gender equality: at work, at home and in all aspects of life. In recognition of his achievements in supporting women in the workplace, he was named an Agent of Change 2019 by Management Today. He's just completed an incredible 42-year career at Mercer, with his final role being Leader of Diversity and Inclusion Consulting. And has now embarked on the next stage of his career, setting up Potentia Consulting (whilst consciously not calling it retirement) and of course is an amazing member of the Avenir team! Rob and I explore how organisations can become more inclusive, happier and successful by valuing everybody in the organisation and unlocking each employee‘s unique potential. Rob is not new to the experience of being in the minority and tells us about his time served on the all-female board of the PWN (Professional Women's Network), where he was Co-President. He also offers his personal ‘ah-ha' moment when he read Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates and gives us an insight into the little things men can do to promote everyday gender-equality. Rob also reflects on the moment of profound change we are experiencing with the Covid-19 crisis and together we explore the current paradigm shift for inclusion at an organisational level as well as at a micro-level in each family‘s home. He shares how many leaders still think diversity sounds good, but they do not see the immediate need to act now. Today, I wonder if progress in inclusion and diversity in organisations will move up the leadership agenda with the global movement of #BlackLivesMatter, which began after this podcast conversation. I hope you enjoy listening! Show links: Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates available on Amazon. PWN Global: https://pwnglobal.net/ Follow Rob on his LinkedIn page or on Twitter: @robertbkr.

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