The Everyday Sexism Project founder says "again and again" when she talks about sexism she hears the reply "women are equal now more or less - sexism doesn't exist any more"
"A lot of people don't realise how dramatically under-represented women still are in the UK," Laura Bates told The Telegraph at the Hay Festival.
She cited significant under-representation of women in a range of professional fields, spanning from politics and the law to science, architecture and the arts.
Ms Bates also discussed statistics about the number of women who are victims of rape, sexual assault or domestic abuse.
"There's a phone call to the police every minute about domestic violence, in England and Wales.
"Every six or seven minutes a woman is raped, adding up to 85,000 rapes and 400,000 sexual assaults every year. A woman in the UK has around a one-in-five chance of being the victim of a sexual offence, and a one-in-four chance of being the victim of domestic violence. And over two women per week are killed in the UK, on average, by current or former partners," she says.
"When you look at all those numbers together, side by side, I think it's really, really hard to carry on with the argument that there's no problem - sexism is dead and women are all equal now, more or less."

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