Women everywhere are sharing stories of sexual harassment and gender inequality but men still aren't really listening, Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told the Frankfurt book fair Tuesday, urging men to read books by women.
"All over the world today women are speaking up. Their stories are still not really heard," Adichie said at the opening of the world's biggest publishing event.
"Women are still invisible. Women's experiences are still invisible." A year after the #MeToo movement went viral and ignited a global discussion about sexual harassment, Adichie said there was much work left to be done.
"It is time for us to pay more than lip service to the fact that women's stories are for everyone," the celebrated author of "Americanah" and "Half of a Yellow Sun" said.
"We know from studies that women read books by men and women. But men read books by men. It is time for men to read women."
"I know many women who want to be famous. I don't know one single woman who wants to be famous for having been assaulted."
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