Call for Evidence

The Committee welcomes written evidence that responds to one or more of the following questions:  

• How prevalent are misogynistic views, attitudes and behaviour among young people today, particularly in educational settings? What examples are there of these views, attitudes and behaviours? In what other settings are such behaviours prevalent?
• How are social media influencers shaping attitudes towards women and girls?
• How is content on social media and online, such as violent pornography, contributing to sexist and misogynistic attitudes and behaviour and violence against women and girls both online and offline?
• What role are social media companies and online platforms playing in the promotion of misogynistic content?
• Who is gaining financially from the marketisation of misogyny online, and how? What policies do social media companies have in place for deplatforming or demonetising this content and are they enforced?
• What strategies and interventions are needed to address misogyny among young people?

Guidance for submissions

Each submission should contain a brief introduction about the author, be relevant to the inquiry, be original (not previously published), be in a Word, ODT or RTD document (not PDF), and no longer than 3,000 words. Further guidance and information on submitting written evidence to Select Committees is available here.

Written evidence may be submitted on the basis of anonymity (meaning that it will be published, but without your name), or in confidence (meaning that it won't be published at all). If you would like to submit evidence anonymously or in confidence, you will be able to select this option during the submission process. Please also state at the beginning of your evidence which of these you want to request, and tell us why.

For further guidance, you can contact womeqcom@parliament.uk.

Deadline for submissions

The deadline for written submissions has been extended to 23:59pm on 27th June 2025.