Maternity discrimination, workplace sexual harassment, the gender pay gap “and so much more” lie somewhere in between. i don’t think men know or understand how imbedded it is, i genuinely believe they would be shocked and assume it was all hysteria when really this is still sugar coated in a palatable way for them.

The examples cited of misogynistic abuse suffered by women are extensive and of course throughly awful as well as unsurprising, but I felt it was sensitively handled and offered many solutions of how to change the system rather that just describing them in graphic detail and moving on. Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in 25 countries worldwide. It was brutally honest, not to mention sickening to read, but I was so glad I pushed through, because I felt like I needed to, and I feel that this book is equally important to men and women alike. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.

But it is nobody else’s to take it away from you, to deny, dismiss, belittle or obliterate with well-meaning platitudes or sexist, outdated excuses.

Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 100,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in 25 countries worldwide.There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. Never before have I felt her formidable and brilliant voice more than in this book — and my god has she delivered some sardonic sentences in her previous offerings! It was hard to read the lists of everyday sexism the author and other women received and to realise that I was right along with them. And it’s sad and infuriating reading all these stories of abuse, harassment, abuse of power, exclusion, and rape. The book unpicks systemic injustices, highlights their endless overlaps and makes for a brilliant and essential read (I only wish it didn’t need to be!