In this Penny Lecture, Caroline Criado-Perez will consider the various ways in which women are under-represented and misrepresented throughout the media and elsewhere, and ask why this matters.
Caroline Criado-Perez is a freelance journalist and feminist campaigner. She is co-founder of The Women's Room, an organisation and database that campaigns for more women experts in the media, and she led the campaign to keep women on banknotes.