14% rise in sex crime reporting after MeToo movement: Study
5 years, 1 month ago

14% rise in sex crime reporting after MeToo movement: Study

India TV News  

The MeToo movement that took the world by storm has led to a 14 per cent rise in reporting of sexual crimes during its first three months across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. The MeToo movement started on October 15, 2017 after sexual misconduct allegations against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein became public following a tweet by actress Alyssa Milano who encouraged people who had been sexually harassed or assaulted to write "Me too" on social media. The researchers estimated that in the first three months of the movement, 11,598 additional sexual crimes were reported in the 13 OECD countries with "strong" MeToo movements. "This study showed that the MeToo movement had a substantial, persistent effect on the propensity to report sexual crimes.

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What’s behind India’s latest #MeToo movement in Malayalam cinema?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

What’s behind India’s latest #MeToo movement in Malayalam cinema?

Al Jazeera  

A probe panel’s report has lifted the veil on widespread sex abuse in the industry, with more women coming forward with allegations too. Sexual harassment is “the worst evil” faced by women in the industry, the report, which spans more than 200 pages, said. “Casting couch”: The report said that women in the industry, especially aspiring actresses, are pressured for …

#MeToo movement, it turns out, was just a fleeting moment
1 year, 5 months ago

#MeToo movement, it turns out, was just a fleeting moment

Al Jazeera  

The #MeToo movement was, it would appear, nothing but a fleeting moment. Indeed, some six years after thousands of women started using the viral hashtag to publicise their experiences of sexual harassment and three years after powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was jailed for rape and sexual assault, sex-based violence is still endemic not just in Hollywood, but also in …

Where the #MeToo movement stands, 5 years after Weinstein allegations came to light
2 years, 2 months ago

Where the #MeToo movement stands, 5 years after Weinstein allegations came to light

NPR  

Where the #MeToo movement stands, 5 years after Weinstein allegations came to light Enlarge this image toggle caption Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images It was five years ago this month that the very first article by journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the story of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's decades of sexual misconduct. Sexual …

The Parts of #MeToo That Still Endure
2 years, 3 months ago

The Parts of #MeToo That Still Endure

Slate  

Despite the catch-all name, I suspect we all have different definitions. Surveys of employees and human resources professionals conducted after #MeToo found that companies were taking new steps to prevent misconduct, workers were demanding more transparency around sexual harassment policies, and boards of directors were taking an interest in the issue for the first time. While much has been made …

Explained: How the #MeToo movement helped women around the world
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained: How the #MeToo movement helped women around the world

Firstpost  

The #MeToo movement, which started in the United States in October 2017, gave millions of women around the world a powerful rallying cry to denounce sexual violence Paris: The birth of #MeToo in the United States in October 2017 gave millions of women around the world a powerful rallying cry to denounce sexual violence. AFP spoke to five women here: …

Sexual crimes against women up 70% in 2 decades
2 years, 8 months ago

Sexual crimes against women up 70% in 2 decades

Live Mint  

India’s rape-related crime rate rose 70.7% over the last two decades from 11.6 per 100,000 women and girls in 2001 to 19.8 in 2018, according to a report by Public Health Foundation of India. While the least number of cases were reported in Bihar with a rate of 1.8 per 100,000 Odisha was high up on the list with 49.4 …

Never Have I Ever’s Poorna Jagannathan: ‘I love the ferocity of the MeToo movement in India’
3 years, 5 months ago

Never Have I Ever’s Poorna Jagannathan: ‘I love the ferocity of the MeToo movement in India’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s so hard to imagine yourself as the centre of the story,” the star of …

When We Refer to #MeToo as a Movement, We Become Complicit in Diminishing Its Efficacy: Ghazala Wahab
3 years, 10 months ago

When We Refer to #MeToo as a Movement, We Become Complicit in Diminishing Its Efficacy: Ghazala Wahab

News 18  

One question that I have been repeatedly asked over the last two years is, ‘what is the future of the #MeToo movement.’ To different people I have tried to give a different answer. While ‘Me Too’ has been an enabler that encourages women to not let their oppressors hide behind the smokescreen of complicit silence, the hashtag has ensured a …

Re-establishing the relevance of #MeToo
3 years, 10 months ago

Re-establishing the relevance of #MeToo

Deccan Chronicle  

Despite garnering enough buzz in the country, the #MeToo movement, regardless of ground-breaking revelations against powerful men, failed to cause tangible legal results for the sexually abused. However, journalist and author Priya Ramani’s recent victory in the MJ Akbar v/s Priya Ramani defamation case seems to have led to a paradigm shift in India’s legal justice system. In his verdict, …

14% Rise In Sex Crime Reporting After MeToo Movement: Study
5 years, 1 month ago

14% Rise In Sex Crime Reporting After MeToo Movement: Study

ABP News  

New York: The MeToo movement that took the world by storm has led to a 14 per cent rise in reporting of sexual crimes during its first three months across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. The MeToo movement started on October 15, 2017 after sexual misconduct allegations against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein became public following a …

How investigative journalism sparked off the #MeToo movement
5 years, 2 months ago

How investigative journalism sparked off the #MeToo movement

Live Mint  

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book She Said: Breaking The Sexual Harassment Story That Ignited A Movement has over 30 pages of footnotes. “We need a pattern.” They turned up at the houses of Weinstein’s victims at dinner time, drove across the UK to trace other victims, spent two weeks meeting a Deep Throat-style whistle-blower within Miramax, painstakingly fact-checked all …

A year of talking about #MeToo: What has changed in the internal lives of women since the movement's second wave?
5 years, 2 months ago

A year of talking about #MeToo: What has changed in the internal lives of women since the movement's second wave?

Firstpost  

What if we understand #MeToo not through where the outed men are, but through how it has affected women’s internal lives — our time, our work, our relationships? It has been one year since a second wave of women’s #MeToo narratives took over social media in India, and two years since the “List” of sexual harassers in academia was first …

#MeToo in India: Speaking up against non-sexual harassment should be the next logical step for the movement
5 years, 6 months ago

#MeToo in India: Speaking up against non-sexual harassment should be the next logical step for the movement

Firstpost  

Are women in India dropping off the workforce because of bullying and bias? My mother, one of India’s first women cops, often tells me, “You are lucky. “Men are judged on potential, women are judged purely on performance,” she says, but “in conversations and meetings, men are often given credit for ideas women had offered. “Some women join the boy’s …

Opinion | Coordination as a hurdle for the #MeToo movement
5 years, 8 months ago

Opinion | Coordination as a hurdle for the #MeToo movement

Live Mint  

After the high of the #MeToo movement last year, we are once again in despondent times. Her story became one of the turning points in the #MeToo movement as it prompted two other actors, Sandhya Mridul and Deepika Amin, to come forward and describe the sexual harassment they encountered while working with Nath. When questioned, the makers of De De …

Sexting and grooming drive rise in reported sex crime: CBS
5 years, 11 months ago

Sexting and grooming drive rise in reported sex crime: CBS

Dutch News  

More sex crimes were recorded in 2018, according to the latest figures published by the CBS Dutch statistics office. Although overall crime reports dropped, following a trend since 2010, almost 9,000 people told the police they had been the victim of a sex crime in 2018, compared with 8,400 in 2017. The CBS attributed a rise in the past few …

Sexting and grooming drive rise in reported sex crime: CBS
5 years, 11 months ago

Sexting and grooming drive rise in reported sex crime: CBS

Dutch News  

More sex crimes were recorded in 2018, according to the latest figures published by the CBS Dutch statistics office. Although overall crime reports dropped, following a trend since 2010, almost 9,000 people told the police they had been the victim of a sex crime in 2018, compared with 8,400 in 2017. The CBS attributed a rise in the past few …

#MeToo educated both men and women about responsibilities towards society: PV Sindhu
5 years, 11 months ago

#MeToo educated both men and women about responsibilities towards society: PV Sindhu

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu on Friday said that the recent wake of the #MeToo has brought in a lot of change in the people's mindsets and has educated both women and men about their responsibilities towards the society. Sindhu was present here at the inauguration of SH - Sexual Harassment Out, a first of its kind initiative by …

The Blind Spot of #MeToo in India
6 years, 1 month ago

The Blind Spot of #MeToo in India

ABP News  

Notwithstanding the eardrums-tearing noise that #MeToo’s supporters created over the last two months, their arguments have had key silences. When purported high-profile harassers began getting called out, they were perceived as people who abused their professional positions and their past work organisations were arraigned of eroding ‘due process’ systems to check sexual harassment at the workplace. Although people of the …

Millennials voice their views!
6 years, 1 month ago

Millennials voice their views!

Deccan Chronicle  

The movement that struck sometime back has sure caused a furore. We have also identified two committee member who have access to a special email id where the employees can send their grievances.” The MeToo movement has brought about a change in the way men interact with women now. city based professional Anusha Raman says, “With the MeToo movement gaining …

#MeToo and its aftermath: Notes from the 'margins' of lists that name and shame
6 years, 1 month ago

#MeToo and its aftermath: Notes from the 'margins' of lists that name and shame

Firstpost  

Power does not operate in a linear way. I won’t dwell much on this aspect of #MeToo, which Christina Thomas Dhanaraj in her Firstpost column ‘ MeToo and savarna feminism: Revolutions cannot start with the privileged, feminist future must be equal for all ’, adeptly captures — of how most feminist discourse in India is led by savarna women and …

After MeToo, 80% men are overly cautious while interacting with women colleagues: Report
6 years, 1 month ago

After MeToo, 80% men are overly cautious while interacting with women colleagues: Report

Firstpost  

The study found that close to 80 percent of the respondents said fear of losing their career, family reputation, social stigma, and scepticism could be some of the reasons for the victims not reporting the cases earlier Mumbai: In the wake of the #MeToo movement, almost 80 percent of men have become overly cautious in their interactions with women colleagues, …

Opinion | Changing the status quo on sexual assault
6 years, 1 month ago

Opinion | Changing the status quo on sexual assault

Live Mint  

On the morning of 17 December, 2012, Delhi woke up to a horror story of gang rape and torture of a woman who eventually succumbed to the brutalities. As widespread protests erupted following the ‘Nirbhaya’ case, people and specifically women became increasingly aware of their vulnerability—that another such incident may be lurking just around the next corner. This plays out …

#MeToo in India: Sexual misconduct in music industry needs to be called out, perpetrators held accountable
6 years, 2 months ago

#MeToo in India: Sexual misconduct in music industry needs to be called out, perpetrators held accountable

Firstpost  

Almost exactly a year after Pune venue High Spirits’ founder Khodu Irani was outed by several testimonies of sexual misconduct and harassment, India’s #MeToo movement brought to the front more charges of harassment, sexual assault and abuse against women in the country’s music industry. Where on the surface there’s an image of artists and creative minds in the music space …

Spotlight on #MeToo: Tackling workplace harassment in Indian media
6 years, 2 months ago

Spotlight on #MeToo: Tackling workplace harassment in Indian media

Firstpost  

As the #MeToo movement rages on, #Spotlight is a watch on sexual assault and everyday harassment in the workplace. Several cases of harassment made the headlines in 2017 as well: An anonymous blogger called ‘Indian Fowler’ accused The Viral Fever founder Arunabh Kumar of sexual harassment; multiple allegations surfaced against venture capitalist Mahesh Murthy ; a news report detailed an …

Heads roll as #MeToo stories gather storm
6 years, 2 months ago

Heads roll as #MeToo stories gather storm

Deccan Chronicle  

As women finally break their silence to name and shame sexual predators, the country is going through a combined catharsis right now. Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen, who has championed women’s causes for decades now, however, believes that the #MeToo movement is just at its inception. You should listen to people and give them a fair hearing; justice will prevail,” the …

#MeToo Movement In India: Need For A Comprehensive Legal And Social Engineering
6 years, 2 months ago

#MeToo Movement In India: Need For A Comprehensive Legal And Social Engineering

Live Law  

Be it a spontaneous overflow of suppressed psychological and emotional trauma or a practical manifestation of ‘the theory of contagion’, the ‘#MeToo movement’ has come to stay in India.Bedeviled by a puritan conscience, while legislators, progressive members of the executive as well as members of the legal fraternity of the country have made common cause with the victims of. Bedeviled …

#MeToo movement launched by people with 'perverted' minds, says Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan
6 years, 2 months ago

#MeToo movement launched by people with 'perverted' minds, says Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan

Firstpost  

Akbar, who edited many mainstream publications before joining politics, resigned as junior external affairs minister Wednesday after a host of his former women journalist colleagues accused him of sexual harassment. Karur: In potentially controversial remarks that could provoke a backlash, Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan has said the #MeToo movement was started by “people with perverted minds” and wondered if it …

Firstpost's #MeToo Conversations: Sandhya Menon, Rituparna Chatterjee, Mahima Kukreja on making the movement truly inclusive
6 years, 2 months ago

Firstpost's #MeToo Conversations: Sandhya Menon, Rituparna Chatterjee, Mahima Kukreja on making the movement truly inclusive

Firstpost  

Ever since the second wave of #MeTooIndia allegations began trending on social media timelines here, journalists Sandhya Menon, Rituparna Chatterjee and writer Mahima Kukreja have been at the forefront of sharing as many of these survivor accounts as possible. Ever since the second wave of #MeTooIndia allegations began trending on social media timelines, journalists Sandhya Menon, Rituparna Chatterjee and writer …

#MeToo: Accusations against men can’t be construed as guilt; calculus of probability should account for innocence
6 years, 3 months ago

#MeToo: Accusations against men can’t be construed as guilt; calculus of probability should account for innocence

Firstpost  

If the MeToo movement feels the need to call out and castigate women whom it considers enablers of patriarchy and rape culture, one would expect it to come from the women who are part of the movement. Vij not only misrepresents what Mustafa wrote in her article “ Whoa#Metoo, Hold your Horses… ”, he charges her with enabling a culture …

India shines bright for the wrong reasons on Google's interactive map on #MeToo movement
6 years, 3 months ago

India shines bright for the wrong reasons on Google's interactive map on #MeToo movement

Firstpost  

In an effort to show the impact of the #MeToo movement, Google has mapped the search results for the term, which led to the spread of the hashtag on social media and made the movement viral from October 2017. Five decades later, the #MeToo movement has given women the world over a platform to share their experiences with sexual harassment …

Journalism after #MeToo
6 years, 3 months ago

Journalism after #MeToo

The Hindu  

Over the last week, Indian journalism has finally been forced to confront what has long been its dirty secret. Going by the numerous agonising accounts of women journalists, about some male colleagues and editors abusing power and crossing the line, it appears that sexual harassment is no media outlet’s exclusive story. It must be protected.” Many of us, journalists, too …

#MeToo in India: After decades of silence, an unafraid generation of young women are opening the floodgate of revelations
6 years, 3 months ago

#MeToo in India: After decades of silence, an unafraid generation of young women are opening the floodgate of revelations

Firstpost  

It was an innocuous bit of paper on which were scribbled the words, “Sweet promises are soon forgotten”. Even the women students at the mass communications course in the university where I sometimes took classes, told me they would rather go into teaching because journalism was not “safe”. Around the same time, at a seminar on “Women and the Media,” …

#MeToo in India: A list of allegations as reported on social media, and followed up by Firstpost
6 years, 3 months ago

#MeToo in India: A list of allegations as reported on social media, and followed up by Firstpost

Firstpost  

As a second wave of #MeToo allegations have taken over social media timelines in India over the past couple of weeks, a wide range of accusations — from inappropriate behaviour to rape — have been levelled against public personalities from the fields of the media and entertainment As a second wave of #MeToo allegations have taken over social media timelines …

#MeToo list continues to grow, but significant number of accused likely to be acquitted: Here's why
6 years, 3 months ago

#MeToo list continues to grow, but significant number of accused likely to be acquitted: Here's why

Firstpost  

Named and shamed by India’s growing #MeToo movement, those accused of sexual harassment and misconduct may well sail to safety because of the law. Time bar is mentioned only in Section 468 of the CrPC, which mandates that no court shall take cognisance of an offence punishable up to three years of imprisonment after the expiry of limitation period. Second, …

‘#MeToo is just tamasha, will disappear like Anna movement’ – Justice Katju’s latest gyan
6 years, 3 months ago

‘#MeToo is just tamasha, will disappear like Anna movement’ – Justice Katju’s latest gyan

Op India  

India has been gripped by the #MeToo movement recently. The article headlined “MeToo movement is gimmick & ploy, aping of ‘goras'”, The former Judge has made the following points: Everyone knows Bollywood and Media are exploitative. People are ‘aping the west’ with this #MeToo movement because Indians have an inferiority complex Sexual harassment being given prominence now is a ‘diversionary …

Is India’s #MeToo moment here? Women are angry and they are naming and shaming their abusers
6 years, 3 months ago

Is India’s #MeToo moment here? Women are angry and they are naming and shaming their abusers

Firstpost  

Women are making it clear that they have had enough and they are ready to call out their abusers in public, evident from the multiple threads on Twitter of them naming and shaming harassers and finding support from others who have had similar experiences. As we stepped out, he grazed my back and then put his hands around my shoulders, …

India lags in implementation, not laws on sexual harassment; #MeToo movement highlights need for better enforcement
6 years, 3 months ago

India lags in implementation, not laws on sexual harassment; #MeToo movement highlights need for better enforcement

Firstpost  

From the #MeToo movement, we must grasp the magnitude and seriousness of sexual harassment cases, which prevail even though there are seemingly strict provisions under the law. It defined sexual harassment as * An implied or explicit promise of preferential treatment in her employment * An implied or explicit promise of detrimental treatment in her employment * An implied or …

Producers Guild of India sets up committee to lead anti-harassment efforts in wake of India's #MeToo movement
6 years, 3 months ago

Producers Guild of India sets up committee to lead anti-harassment efforts in wake of India's #MeToo movement

Firstpost  

Producers Guild of India said in an official statement that they extended full support for India’s MeToo moment In the wake of India’s MeToo moment, where women from different walks of life have taken to Twitter to call out incidents of sexual misconduct and their perpetrators, Producers Guild of India issued an official statement on 9 October, extending their support …

#MeToo in India: Online abuse and criticism mar social media crusade against sexual harassment which is outing abusers
6 years, 3 months ago

#MeToo in India: Online abuse and criticism mar social media crusade against sexual harassment which is outing abusers

Firstpost  

Not everyone has taken well to this online outrage and many people have come forth to criticise the movement terming it “toxic feminism”. However, not everyone has taken well to this online outrage and many people have come forth to criticise the movement, some even terming it “toxic feminism”. — Arko Chakraborty October 8, 2018 Journalist Madhavan Narayan commented on …

#MeToo: This Mahalaya, Let Women be Empowered to Slay the Evils of Misogyny
6 years, 3 months ago

#MeToo: This Mahalaya, Let Women be Empowered to Slay the Evils of Misogyny

News 18  

In the wee hours of Monday, before sunrise, Goddess Durga quietly began her descent from heaven to the mortal sphere, thus marking the advent of ‘Devi Paksha,’ - the hour of the goddess. While Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code popularised the idea of ‘sacred feminine’ only recently, Bengal has lived with the tradition of worshipping women as the embodiment …

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