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Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour.

This month, we're asking, after Me Too, what next?

Joining me tonight, anthropologist Kit Davis, historian and journalist Zoe Strimple, author and columnist Rianne and Lucy Coslet, and joining us later on the line from Italy, writer and broadcaster Agnes Poirier. So let's start off by establishing where Me Too is up to. Most women wore black to the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards,

and I do suspect the Oscars will follow suit.

But what's happening off the red carpet?

Rianan, I know that you have found this movement inspiring.

Why is that?

And where do you think it's at right now?

I think what's been inspiring is that, you know,

for so long we've had these whisper networks,

where women have talked among

themselves about the kind of behaviour that's happened to them, particularly in the workplace.

So say you're a junior member of staff and you start at a company, usually another junior

member of staff or young women will kind of approach you and tell you, you know, watch out

for this man. He has been known to kind of

behave inappropriately towards young women. And, you know, this is something that has been

going on for years and years and years where we've talked about it under the radar. And what's

happened with me too is that people are finally talking about it openly. And I think that's given,

well, we know that that's given a lot of women the courage to come forward and talk about it openly. And I think that's given, well, we know that that's given

a lot of women the courage to come forward and talk about their experiences publicly, whilst before

they worried too much about the repercussions of what that might involve for their careers, for their

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