Low-Wage Workers Say #MeToo Movement Is A Chance For Change
7 years, 1 month ago

Low-Wage Workers Say #MeToo Movement Is A Chance For Change

NPR  

Low-Wage Workers Say #MeToo Movement Is A Chance For Change Enlarge this image toggle caption Arise Chicago Arise Chicago The campaign to speak out against workplace sexual harassment began with women in Hollywood and in the media — those in positions of relative power and privilege. "It's had an incredibly dramatic impact in our industry," says Saru Jayaraman, president of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a group that advocates for better working conditions. Sponsor Message "It's at the point where it's happened so much that I instinctively shoot up as soon as I hear a walk-in door open behind me," she says. "Seventy percent of these workers who live on the tipped minimum wage are women, and they suffer from three times the poverty rate and the highest rates of sexual harassment of any industry, because they must put up with all kinds of inappropriate customer behavior," Jayaraman says.

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

Cuomo’s fall, #MeToo and the ‘disposables’
3 years, 7 months ago

Cuomo’s fall, #MeToo and the ‘disposables’

Al Jazeera  

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has fallen from grace. Cuomo’s star status, however, began to fade in the fall of 2020 when rumours started circulating about his administration’s underreporting of the number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes. In the end, however, it was not the deaths of thousands of older people and the subsequent cover-up that brought down one …

#MeToo in the age of coronavirus
4 years, 11 months ago

#MeToo in the age of coronavirus

Live Mint  

Even before the lockdown started on 25 March, AJ’s colleagues at her PR firm had begun to work from home. “I really could catch a break.” In January, she had approached the office internal complaints committee and shown the lewd messages she had received from her boss. “Most of his messages were on texts, which meant he could have continued …

A year after #MeToo's second wave, systemic change eludes Hindi TV industry, but attitudinal shift in evidence
5 years, 4 months ago

A year after #MeToo's second wave, systemic change eludes Hindi TV industry, but attitudinal shift in evidence

Firstpost  

Post #MeToo, mandated workplace mechanisms like ICs are yet to be instituted, but members of the Hindi TV industry say there’s greater awareness about harassment-related issues and the possibility of redressal A little over a year since the second wave of the #MeToo movement stormed social media timelines in India, the entertainment industry has seemingly taken an adage popularly associated …

How investigative journalism sparked off the #MeToo movement
5 years, 5 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 …

Opinion | If not closure, #MeToo movement has given women freedom from fear
5 years, 6 months ago

Opinion | If not closure, #MeToo movement has given women freedom from fear

Live Mint  

For a long time, India has been a patriarchal society and crimes against women have been underreported. In India, the #MeToo movement really took off about a year ago when Tanushree Dutta and Vinta Nanda alleged sexual harassment by well-known film personalities. One of the concerns about the #MeToo movement is that often there is no evidence, and that an …

The MeToo evolution
5 years, 8 months ago

The MeToo evolution

BBC  

The MeToo evolution Piero Zagami and Michela Nicchiotti How a worldwide movement has changed – and is still changing – the workplace as we know it. Entering the zeitgeist in late 2017 when the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, the movement has snowballed far beyond Hollywood to multiple industries, including the restaurant world and sport. As time has passed, it’s sparked …

The #MeToo movement gets a movie about everyday harassment with Israel’s ‘Working Woman’
5 years, 11 months ago

The #MeToo movement gets a movie about everyday harassment with Israel’s ‘Working Woman’

LA Times  

Hollywood has yet to make “#MeToo: The Movie,” and Israel already beat it to the punch. In fact, when writer-director Michal Aviad began researching her “Working Woman” back in 2012, “the only two major films on the subject were ‘Disclosure’ and ‘Fatal Attraction.’ And both are about women harassing men.” There are no boiling bunnies in Aviad’s new film, which …

#MeToo to #UsToo: Power lies in numbers
6 years, 5 months ago

#MeToo to #UsToo: Power lies in numbers

Deccan Chronicle  

It was early 1986. As I read the avalanche of horrifying testimonies by women in the media and entertainment industries about alleged sexual harassment and assaults by famous and successful men like M.J. Akbar, Nana Patekar and Alok Nath, my mind goes back to that terrifying night, when I was trying to figure out how to save myself. I’m sure …

Radhika Apte says artistes need good support system for #MeToo movement to work in Bollywood
6 years, 6 months ago

Radhika Apte says artistes need good support system for #MeToo movement to work in Bollywood

Firstpost  

Actor Radhika Apte says to bring #MeToo movement to Indian entertainment industry the artistes need to have a good support system. The 33-year-old actor said not only women but men also need to “come out of their fears” and share their stories of harassment and sexual abuse. We need to have a good support system and come out of our …

Is #MeToo a West-only movement?
7 years, 2 months ago

Is #MeToo a West-only movement?

Al Jazeera  

Mona Eltahawy, Ranjana Kumari and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah debate the global effect of the anti sexual harassment campaign. That slogan went viral overnight in the wake of Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein scandal last October, which prompted women around the world to break a lot of the silence around sexual assault and harassment and began to share their stories, with more than …

The New York Times joins the chorus of voices arguing that #MeToo will end flirting and fun sex.
7 years, 2 months ago

The New York Times joins the chorus of voices arguing that #MeToo will end flirting and fun sex.

Slate  

Today’s hottest #MeToo take comes from the New York Times opinion page, where Daphne Merkin argues that the movement to expose a widespread culture of sexual harassment and abuse has gotten out of hand. These friends serve the same purpose as Merkin’s “feminists”—to give unearned credence to a dubious claim about what exactly women deserve, and to make one person’s …

Women in low-wage US farm jobs say #MeToo
7 years, 3 months ago

Women in low-wage US farm jobs say #MeToo

Al Jazeera  

Women of colour in low-wage jobs face uphill battle to report and get justice for sexual abuse and harassment at work. “I just remember crying and I remember not wanting to speak any more.” It would be several more years until Trevino-Sauceda realised just how widespread sexual harassment, assault and violence was among women farmworkers in the US, who number …

This is what Richa Chadha has to say on MeToo campaign
7 years, 5 months ago

This is what Richa Chadha has to say on MeToo campaign

ABP News  

The social media has been abuzz with a 'Metoo' campaign, as part of which women from across the world have been expressing their experiences with sexual harassment. Richa told new agency IANS: "First, I would like the media to carry a consistent campaign against sexual harassment, verbal or otherwise, not just discuss it in a hurry when it's a 'trending' …

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