How to advocate for yourself as a woman in travel media

Lottie's got something to say on being paid, put in awkward situations and being patronised.

This International Women’s Day (8 March) began for me with a shirty email exchange from a fellow writer. In a reply to our newsletter that morning, a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers saw fit to send a sarcastic and patronising “correction” to our email titled “Does the travel media have a women problem?”. 

After I died under the weight of th…