Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Knottite.

This time, responses to the outpouring of sexual harassment allegations.

Is the focus on this aspect of women's lives empowering

us or just the opposite? We've become addicted to being outraged and angry. And there's some good

to that, of course, right? But there's also some damage that that's being done as well. But not everyone

agrees. The notion of a space and a place and a platform for lots of women to speak up about their experience, I think is a game changer.

Coming up, two views on the reckoning over sexual harassment and assault. This morning I woke up to news of yet another TV host being suspended from his own show because of allegations of improper sexual conduct.

If you live in America, you're getting used to this.

Media men, entertainers, restaurateurs, politicians.

We're hearing awful stories of the behavior they've subjected female colleagues to over the years.

And the men have got away with it because the women thought, I won't be taken seriously if I speak up.

He's too powerful. I'll risk my career.

Also, in many cases, they doubted themselves as women so often do. They wondered if it was as big a deal as it felt.

Now, after the Harvey Weinstein allegations, the stories are pouring out.

And US media law means it's easier for an American news organization to publish

allegations without fear of being sued.

In the UK, the laws are different.

That may explain why fewer allegations of misconduct are being published there.

Many of the accused men aren't denying the stories. Think Matt Lauer, Louis C.K., Mario

Batali. They're apologising and retiring from the public gaze, at least for now. But others are

disputing them and saying they're being tried and condemned in the court of public opinion.

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