[1] After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in English Literature, Bates worked as a nanny and found that the young girls she looked after were already preoccupied with their body image.

"Again and again, people told me sexism is no longer a problem – that women are equal now, more or less, and if you can’t take a joke or take a compliment, then you need to stop being so 'frigid' and get a sense of humor," she said in April 2013.

"[5] At the time of the 2012 foundation of the Everyday Sexism website, Bates had "hoped to gather 100 women's stories," but a year after the launch she wrote that it had grown very rapidly.

"Simply coughing up outrage into a blog will get us nowhere," wrote Germaine Greer in the New Statesman when she reviewed Bates' book in May 2014.

[10] Another critic, Rachel Cooke, said in her review of Everyday Sexism in April 2014, that this book, "is a wasted opportunity: little more than another repository for anger and frustration.

[14] Bates said in April 2015: "The entries have been used to work on policy with ministers and members of parliament in multiple countries, to start conversations about consent in schools and universities, to tackle sexual harassment in businesses and workplaces and to help police forces raise the reporting and detection rates on sexual offences.