Hello
Thought some of you might be interested to see that we were featured on the Peston Show on ITV last night; you can see it at around 2 minutes in here.
You'll see they show a graph showing how many Mumsnet users clicked on Talk threads that mention words to do with violence against women. (The search words we used were: sexual harassment|sexual violence|rape|violence against women|sexual assault|domestic violence| - and for the last two weeks, we added the search term 'sarah everard').
(To be clear, this search string will have picked up very long discussion threads that mention one or more of these terms in passing.)
Here's the graph, running over the last three months. In the two weeks before Sarah Everard's disappearance began to be reported, discussions containing these search terms made up around 7% of the total page views on all discussion threads. In the most recent two weeks (since Sarah's disappearance was reported) the same category of discussion threads made up around 12% of all Talk page views on Mumsnet (3,977,742 pageviews out of 31,888,455 in that period).
As the journalist Anushka Asthana says when presenting the figures on Peston, one point to note is the ongoing prevalence and relevance of these search terms in conversations on Mumsnet, even at times when there isn't such a shocking and high-profile case in the news.
As ever it would be great to hear what you think. And of course our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of Sarah Everard as well as to the loved ones of all the women killed.