Laura Bates
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Laura Bates | |
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 Bates in 2014 | |
| Born | Laura Carolyn Bates[1] 27 August 1986 Oxford, England |
| Education | King's College, Taunton |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Subject | Feminism |
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| Notable awards | British Empire Medal |
| Spouse |
Nick Taylor (m. 2014) |
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Laura Carolyn Bates BEM FRSL (born 27 August 1986)[1] is an English feminist writer. She founded the Everyday Sexism Project website in April 2012. Her first book, Everyday Sexism, was published in 2014.[2][5][6]
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 Everyday sexism: Laura Bates at TEDxCoventGardenWomen, TEDx Talks, 16:05, 17 January 2014 |
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| Shouting Back :Laura Bates, Caroline Criado-Perez and Samira Ahmed at Conway Hall 19:30, 9 October 2014 |
Bates' parents are Diane Elizabeth Bates, a French language teacher, and Adrian Keith Bates, a physician.[1] She grew up in the London Borough of Hackney and Taunton, and has an older sister and a younger brother. Her parents divorced when Bates was in her twenties.[7] She was privately educated at King's College, Taunton.[1] and subsequently studied English literature at University of Cambridge where she was an undergraduate student at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated in 2007.
