Welcome back to the podcast, Brib, Swindle, or Steel.

I'm Alexandra Rogge, and today we're discussing the implications of the Me Too movement.

My guest is Misty Mukherjee.

Misty is a fantastic lawyer and the managing member of Extentio Law in Washington, where she represents

employers on a broad array of issues relating to employment law. Prior to Extentio, Misty was

General Counsel for a large, privately held company, having arrived there after a long stretch in private

practice. Misty, thanks so much for joining me. It's great to be here. Thank you.

This is a new topic for the podcast.

We have a lot of topics on that are fairly clear cut.

Everyone agrees corruption is bad.

Human trafficking is bad.

This is a more nuanced problem.

So it might be useful if you could start by describing the scope of the issue with a little bit of

history that we're trying to address under the heading of the Me Too movement.

It is a very fast-moving topic and a lot has changed in the very short time that we have come

to know Me Too as part of our vernacular. The birth of Me Too is tagged to the

publication of a New York Times article in October of 2017, and it's an article that we've all come

to know well, and it's an explosive article about Harvey Weinstein, and it detailed allegations

that he had used his star-making power to pressure many, many women into having sex with him.

And it was followed in that same month by sexual assault allegations by more about more than a dozen other men and also famous men, including Kevin Spacey.

So there was a there was a huge story that was

published in October of 2017 that was followed by a series of other huge stories. In response to

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