The Everyday Sexism Project, which was set up to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day-to-day basis, has become a global phenomenon, carrying thousands of stories from women around the world, and with some 124,000 people following its Twitter feed. Laura Bates, who graduated from St John’s in 2007, described how the project sprang from personal experiences of harassment while she was living in London. Speaking to friends and colleagues, she realised that this was not only a common issue for women, but one which they were expected to put up with on grounds of presumed equality. Her talk, given to the Johnian Women's Networking Event in February 2014, describes both the site's origins, and its impact.