Monday, June 30th, 2025
Professionals Talk - Laura Bates
JCG Senior School Hall JCG Le Mont Millais JE2 7YB St Saviour
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Laura Bates is a best-selling author, keynote speaker and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. Her books include Everyday Sexism, Girl Up and Fix the System, Not the Women. Laura writes regularly for the New York Times, Guardian and others, and is a frequent media commentator and consultant for TV productions tackling issues around gender inequality.
She works closely with government, schools, businesses, police forces and bodies from the United Nations to the Council of Europe on sexism and inequality.
In recognition of Laura’s work surrounding sexism and gender inequality, she was awarded a British Empire Medal in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List and has been named Woman of the Year by Cosmopolitan, Red Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine. She is also an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Laura will lead professionals who work with young people in discussions relating to sexism, sexual harassment and sexual violence impacting young people. This keynote will look at the prevalence and nature of the problem, the ways in which it tends to play out, and what interventions and strategies work to tackle it.