Laura Carolyn Bates BEM FRSL (born 27 August 1986) is an English feminist writer.

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.

[2] 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.

After her publication of Men Who Hate Women in 2020, Bates said she received deepfake pornography images of herself performing sexual acts on the sender.

[6] Bates' first book Everyday Sexism, based on the project, was published by the London subsidiary of Simon & Schuster in 2014.