Two Years On, Has Anything Really Changed For Women Since #MeToo?

When the allegations against Harvey Weinstein first broke two years ago today, it felt seismic. Instantly there was a sense that women were being listened to. First, famous women. Then other women, all of us, on social media and in pubs and homes and offices. We were talking about sexual assault and harassment with new openness and urgency.

Despite the overwhelming waterfall of evidence that demonstrated an embedded of culture of sexual harassment and abuse against women, we suspected that, at some point, the world would stop caring. Slowly but surely, celebrity news would tumble back into the forefront of our social-media feeds. Brexit would become the topic for debate again and all of our bravery in sharing our deeply distressing experiences would feel undervalued.

However, when you take a look at the statistics around sexual harassment, rape, and gender imbalance in the workplace since #MeToo, it’s pretty bleak.The Time's Up Legal Defense Fund hotline fields hundreds of calls a day from women who are being harassed at work. In fact, Fatima Goss Graves who helped organise the fund told The Washington Post that during the Golden Globes, when Time's Up was a big talking point, the hotline got 200 calls alone during the show.

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