麻豆社

The author Margaret Atwood has seen the TV version of her novel The Handmaid's Tale become a new rallying cry for gender equality. Many young women dress in the distinctive red costumes as a form of protest.

But the writer has been pilloried for comments she made in a Canadian newspaper criticising the treatment of a professor accused of sexual harassment. Amid a backlash on social media, Margaret Atwood wrote "and now, it seems, I am conducting a War on Women, like the misogynistic, rape-enabling Bad Feminist that I am".

As she told Radio 4's World at One programme, she hears from both sides of the feminist debate, but mostly
"from the ones who are afraid to speak up in public because they are afraid that they will be denounced themselves".

(Photo: Writer Margaret Atwood Credit: Getty Images)