Telegraph Wonder Women’s weekly team-up with The Everyday Sexism Project reveals 10 women’s different experiences throughout the week.
Newsagent telling every woman in the queue that he’d sleep with them. Told me he wouldn’t shag me because I ask for receipts #luckyescape.
In a business meeting I mention to my boss that I am getting married in a few weeks. He says without skipping a beat: “Why make one man miserable when you can make many men happy?” And then proceeds to look around the room at all the men and laugh at his own joke for 10 minutes.
My mother has been single-handedly running a farm for over 20 years. Whenever salesmen come to our house they ALWAYS ask to speak to the man of the house and think she’s fobbing them off when she says that she is in charge
I long for the day when I’m able to walk to the supermarket without being wolf whistled at/verbally harassed.
Going to an office party and having a (married) colleague, who had previously made me feel uncomfortable in the workplace, sitting next to me stick his hand up my skirt.