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I Call Myself A Feminist

I Call Myself A Feminist has 561 ratings and 116 reviews. Amy (shoutame) said: A very inspiring and thought-provoking novel told from 25 different women….

Is feminism still a dirty word? ‘I Call Myself a Feminist’ asks twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them.

With contributions from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati (an eighteen-year-old activist), Laura Pankhurst, great-great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and an activist in her own right, comedian Sofie Hagen, engineer Naomi Mitchison and Louise O’Neill, author of the award-winning feminist Young Adult novel Only Ever Yours and more, the book discusses whether the word ‘feminist’ is still to be shunned?

We talk a lot about the gender pay gap, but what about the gender ambition gap? BCG dispel the myths surrounding the subject – have a read and see how it correlates – or otherwise – to your own experience.