Proponents will continue push after legal consultation proposes different measures to tackle sex- and gender-based hostility

A coalition of women’s rights campaigners have voiced their disappointment and frustration after the Law Commission decided to reject a proposal to make misogyny a hate crime.

The commission, an independent body that recommends legal changes, launched a consultation but concluded that the move would not solve the “real problem” of hostility or prejudice directed against women because of their sex or gender.

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