How we’re sleepwalking into a new era of misogyny: an urgent and shocking new book from bestselling author and feminist activist Laura Bates
 

'I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND
‘Reads like a thriller’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Illuminating and frequently chilling’ JAMES O’BRIEN
‘Urgent’ EMMA LOUISE-BOYNTON

AI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates.

With misogyny baked into their design, new AI-driven technologies are putting women and marginalised groups in danger, their rights and safety sacrificed at the altar of profitability and reckless speed.

In The New Age of Sexism, Sunday Times bestselling author and campaigner Laura Bates takes us deep into the heart of this rapidly evolving world, where power remains largely in the hands of a few rich, white men. She explores the metaverse, confronts deepfake pornography, travels to cyber brothels, tests chatbots, and hears from schools in the grip of online sexual abuse, showing how our lives – from education to work, sex to entertainment – are being infiltrated by easily accessible technologies that are changing the way we live and love. What she finds is a wild west where existing forms of discrimination, inequality and harassment are being coded into the future.

Gripping, courageous and eye-opening, The New Age of Sexism exposes a phenomenon we can’t afford to ignore any longer. Our future is on the line. We need to act now, before it is too late.

‘Laura Bates explains how they built the future – and forgot to put women in it’ CAITLIN MORAN

‘All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal society’ ROBIN INCE

**From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Men Who Hate Women and Fix the System, Not the Women**

Details

ISBN13: 9781471190513
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 320
Edition:
Publication Date: 12 May 2026
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x13(L)x1.9(W)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

Laura Bates is a Sunday Times bestselling author and the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality. Her non-fiction books include Everyday Sexism, Girl Up, Misogynation, Men Who Hate Women and Fix the System, Not the Women. She writes regularly for The Guardian and the Telegraph, among other publications, and won a British Press Award in 2015. Laura works closely with organisations from the Council of Europe to the United Nations to tackle gender inequality. She was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to gender equality and has been named a woman of the year by Cosmopolitan, Red and The Sunday Times. 

Reviews

'The New Age of Sexism doesn’t sound like a thriller, but it reads like one, with vivid reportage, arresting stories, sharp insights and grabby stats’ * Daily Telegraph *
‘We are lucky to have Laura Bates . . . Be sure to lend this book to all the men in your lives when you've finished reading – or better yet, ask to borrow it after they've bought it’ * Glamour *
‘Laura Bates explains how they built the future – and forgot to put women in it’  -- Caitlin Moran
'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable'  -- Jo Brand
‘A brilliantly researched, incredibly illuminating and frequently chilling account of the next chapter in tech's ongoing assault on our core values. A chapter that is already unfolding around us all’  -- James O'Brien
‘Through her usual fast-paced, well-researched and deeply compelling prose, Laura Bates examines how new technologies are rapidly moving the frontiers of sexism, while emphasizing just how crucial it is that we get ahead of the way these innovations impact women’ -- Emma-Louise Boynton
‘All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal society’ -- Robin Ince