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Hello, I'm Jama, and welcome to another episode of Good Influence.

This is the podcast where each week you and I meet a guest will help us pay attention

to something we should know about as well as answer some of your questions.

This week we're talking about sexism, daily examples of sexism, how those link together

and linked to other forms of discrimination, and the systems we have to tackle to make change.

This episode does feature issues and language related to gender discrimination, as well

as serious sexual and physical violence.

Please listen with care and put your mental health first.

Joining me this week is Laura Bates.

Laura is an author, journalist, and is founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, which launched

in 2012 and now consists of hundreds of thousands of reader submitted stories of gender inequality.

Laura is also a contributor of women under siege, an organisation working to combat sexual

violence in war and conflict zones around the world.

Her published books include titles such as Everyday Sexism, Men Who Hate Women,

and her latest release Fix the System Not the Women, which lays out patterns of systemic

misogyny and debunks them if the acts of violence towards women are ever just isolated incidents.

I wanted this book to give people the kind of tools and information that they needed to

understand that the system is institutionally misogynistic and that we have the right to

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