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The story includes testimony and reporting on dozens of people, from all walks of life, who experienced sexual harassment and/or sexual assault, rape, threats of violence and more on the job. Much of it against the law.
Just a few of the subjects are hotel employees, famous musicians, news anchors, actors, college students and employees, politicians, reporters, as well as depth on company policies, training, liability, fallout, change, analysis, etc.
Excellent piece!
It's a long and worthwhile read, imo.
THE SILENCE BREAKERS
BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, ELIANA DOCKTERMAN AND HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BILLY & HELLS FOR TIME
The story includes testimony and reporting on dozens of people, from all walks of life, who experienced sexual harassment and/or sexual assault, rape, threats of violence and more on the job. Much of it against the law.
Just a few of the subjects are hotel employees, famous musicians, news anchors, actors, college students and employees, politicians, reporters, as well as depth on company policies, training, liability, fallout, change, analysis, etc.
Excellent piece!
It's a long and worthwhile read, imo.
THE SILENCE BREAKERS
BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, ELIANA DOCKTERMAN AND HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BILLY & HELLS FOR TIME
These silence breakers have started a revolution of refusal, gathering strength by the day, and in the past two months alone, their collective anger has spurred immediate and shocking results: nearly every day, CEOs have been fired, moguls toppled, icons disgraced.
In some cases, criminal charges have been brought.
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The women and men who have broken their silence span all races, all income classes, all occupations and virtually all corners of the globe. They might labor in California fields, or behind the front desk at New York City's regal Plaza Hotel, or in the European Parliament. They're part of a movement that has no formal name.
But now they have a voice.
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Nearly all of the people TIME interviewed about their experiences expressed a crushing fear of what would happen to them personally, to their families or to their jobs if they spoke up.
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Those who are often most vulnerable in society immigrants, people of color, people with disabilities, low-income workers and LGBTQ people described many types of dread. If they raised their voices, would they be fired?
Would their communities turn against them?
Would they be killed?
According to a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 47 percent of transgender people report being sexually assaulted at some point in their lives, both in and out of the workplace.
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Many of the people who have come forward also mentioned a different fear, one less visceral but no less real, as a reason for not speaking out: if you do, your complaint becomes your identity.
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Discussions of sexual harassment in polite company tend to rely on euphemisms: harassment becomes "inappropriate behavior," assault becomes "misconduct," rape becomes "abuse."
We're accustomed to hearing those softened words, which downplay the pain of the experience.
That's one of the reasons why the Access Hollywood tape that surfaced in October 2016 was such a jolt. The language used by the man who would become America's 45th President, captured on a 2005 recording, was, by any standard, vulgar. He didn't just say that he'd made a pass; he "moved on her like a *****." He didn't just talk about fondling women; he bragged that he could "grab 'em by the p***y."
That Donald Trump could express himself that way and still be elected President is part of what stoked the rage that fueled the Women's March the day after his Inauguration.
It's why women seized on that crude word as the emblem of the protest that dwarfed Trump's Inauguration crowd size.
"All social movements have highly visible precipitating factors," says Aldon Morris, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University. "In this case, you had Harvey Weinstein, and before that you had Trump."