The Everyday Sexism Project

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    As I was doing some research for a previous article of mine, I stumbled across an article that mentioned something called “The Everyday Sexism Project.” The name intrigued me, so I hopped onto their website to see what it was about, and I loved what I found.

    The Everyday Sexism Project is a project that seeks to give women a voice to talk about gender inequality. Their website allows people to submit their stories or experiences with gender inequality so that they can have a platform to share things that happened to them because of their gender. It has an archive of what appears to be thousands of submissions.


    Their “about” page on the site states that it has become “increasingly difficult to talk about sexism, equality and women’s rights in a modern society that perceives itself to have achieved gender equality.” Women are constantly labeled as crazy, uptight, or prudish for speaking up about inequality they have faced because of their gender, so it belittles them as people while dismissing their experiences. This project allows women whose complaints may be dismissed under the guise of an equal society to speak up about their experiences. The writer of the page states that the project is “a place to record stories of sexism faced on a daily basis, by ordinary women, in ordinary places.”


    No matter how small or normalized something has gotten within society, women through this project can speak up about how it is still wrong and how a particular experience affected them.


    I absolutely love that a project like this exists. We often see women’s experiences being labeled as not bad enough to be spoken about and inequality being spoken of like it no longer exists. Women have gotten used to brushing off inappropriate comments or jokes because it is just considered normal at this point when it is still not acceptable. Just because in theory we can now hold the same jobs as men, this difference in treatment is dismissed and not taken as a sign of persisting inequality by many people. I am glad at least there is this safe place where women can go to to talk about their feelings and I wanted to share it with others because projects like this are very important to recognize.


Sources:

https://everydaysexism.com/about

https://time.com/3892965/everydaysexism-school-dress-codes-rape-culture/

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