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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next - Five Years of #MeToo

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Five years after exposés in the New Yorker and New York Times, Harvey Weinstein is in jail—but a major rallying point of #MeToo was just how widespread this sexual harassment, abuse, and violence really is in workplaces across industries. Looking back, from the top of media to blue- and pink-collar work, how much has the #MeToo movement changed?


Guest: Christina Cauterucci, senior writer at Slate.


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There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

0:05.4

I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period.

0:09.9

It's just for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my

0:15.5

records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

0:18.8

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0:32.3

Earlier this year, President Joe Biden signed a bill that didn't attract too much fanfare.

0:38.3

Between half and three quarters of all women report that they have faced some form of sexual

0:42.5

harassment in the workplace and too often they're denied a voice and a fair chance to do

0:47.7

anything about it.

0:49.5

Today we send a clear and strong message that we stand with you for safety, dignity and

0:56.6

for justice.

0:58.2

The bill banned the use of something called forced arbitration in sexual misconduct cases.

1:04.3

Basically it means that now if you experience harassment or assault in the workplace you

1:09.9

can't be forced to work the problem out with a mediator instead of bringing a lawsuit.

1:15.6

In most news publications the bill barely made a splash.

1:19.8

But for some activists the bill represented the culmination of a long held goal.

1:25.9

That was a me too bill that was specifically advocated for in the terms of that movement.

1:32.0

You know it took five years or four and a half years for it to pass and be signed into

1:36.6

law but the movement is what got it there.

1:40.4

Ms. Dina Kateruchi is a senior writer at Slate and she says that these days it's hard to

1:45.7

remember a time when me too was not an instantly recognizable phrase.

1:50.8

Activist Harona Burke founded an organization by that name in 2006 to support survivors

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