--- title: Laura Bates slug: laura-bates qid: snapshot: enwiki-001374949888 content_hash: license: CC BY-SA 4.0 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374949888 tags: [101400023, 10512023, 106600377, 127167716, 22959575, 23118434, 23225883, 23584912, 23603337, 23617850, 27234679, 27543597, 40736534, 45407879, 49997570, 53660704, 5467904, 584567, 77623980, 77891209, 7841146] --- # Laura Bates > [!note] Provenance > Snapshot `enwiki-001374949888` · content root `…` > Derived from · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 Laura Carolyn Bates (born 27 August 1986) is an English feminist writer. She founded the Everyday Sexism Project website in April 2012. Her first book, Everyday Sexism, was published in 2014. Laura Carolyn Bates (born 27 August 1986) is an English feminist writer. She founded the Everyday Sexism Project website in April 2012. Her first book, Everyday Sexism, was published in 2014. ==Career== After graduating, Bates remained in Cambridge for two-and-a-half years as a researcher for the psychologist Susan Quilliam, who was working on an updated edition of The Joy of Sex. Bates then worked as an actress and a nanny, a period during which she has said she experienced sexism at auditions and found the young girls she was caring for were already preoccupied with their body image.