Me Too: The Women Who Helped Ignite a Movement

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. On this episode we hear from some of the women who helped sparked the 2017 MeToo movement. Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey are the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists who first broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct with dozens of Hollywood’s most elite actresses. The journalists were joined on stage by three women who had previously worked with Weinstein and broke their long-buried, and legally bound, silence over his sexual abuse allegations; Rowena Chiu - Former assistant to Harvey Weinstein; Laura Madden - Former production executive at Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax Films London; and Zelda Perkins - Former assistant to Harvey Weinstein and a campaigner against non-disclosure agreements. In this conversation they recount their work to publish a story which had been silenced for decades and how this sparked a movement for societal change. Our host for this conversation was Carrie Gracie, Former BBC China Editor and author of Equal: A Story of Women, Men and Money. This recording took place in central London in 2019 as part of the series “Intelligent Times” – a partnership between Intelligence Squared and The New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.6	events in the Middle East with my great friend and colleague over many, many years, Justin Webb.
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1:46.8	Welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm producer Catherine Hughes. To mark international
1:54.4	women's day, we're dedicating all seven days this week to examining the challenges and
1:58.7	triumphs of women around the world, through art, sports, literature and politics. Today on the
2:04.4	podcast, we'll be hearing from some of the women who sparked the 2017 MeToo movement.
2:10.1	Jody Cantor and Megan Toey are the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist who first
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