\u201cI\u2019ve had to heal from the re-trauma of holding him accountable,\u201dMiriam Haleyi was Haley’s real name. \u201cBut the ripple effect it\u2019s had makes it worth it. I hear so many people refer to that trial and the impacts it\u2019s had when talking about these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n Weinstein, now 70, appealed the New York conviction he received for a criminal sexual offense and third-degree, rape. He was sentenced 23 years in prison. The jury selection process in the second criminal trial for sexual assault in Los Angeles began last Monday.<\/p>\n The fallen mogul\u2019s return to the courtroom and the public eye this month is a remarkable bit of timing, taking place almost exactly five years after investigative journalism revealed his predatory behavior, starting a conversation that spurred actress Alyssa Milano to post a now famous tweet, catapulting #MeToo into the spotlight.<\/p>\n Whatever the outcome in the courts, the social movement that exploded into public consciousness as the Weinstein scandal broke open the floodgates clearly brought significant changes \u2014 and not just in Hollywood.<\/p>\n \u201cThere have been people fighting to interrupt sex violence for decades \u2014 decades trying to address a conversation behind closed doors, in the shadows,\u201dDani Ayers, CEO at You too. International<\/a>The organization was founded in 2019 by the #MeToo global movement, which brought out the activism of activists. Tarana Burke<\/a>It was he who invented the phrase and founded it. \u201cme too\u201d2006: Movement<\/p>\n \u201cWe know if you\u2019re having these conversations behind closed doors, nothing will change,\u201d Ayers said, adding that Milano\u2019s \u201cMe Too\u201dTwitter and the viral cascades that followed \u201cbrought the conversation to the masses.\u201d<\/p>\n It also created a certain level of accountability, because before large changes in culture can take place, communities need to recognize there\u2019s a problem, she said.<\/p>\n Hong Luo, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, said that the #MeToo global movement raised awareness about sexual harassment and its consequences. This behavior was previously largely invisible and affects all genders.<\/p>\n Important public conversations were also sparked by #MeToo \u201cthe causes that enable this misconduct, what enables them to persist for so long\u2026 the broader things of how gender inequality and entrenched norms and just how women are supposed to behave in work and life,\u201dLuo said. <\/p>\n She continued: \u201cYou see this everywhere \u2014 in op-eds, in comments, blogs. Everything becomes very salient because of the personal account.\u201d <\/p>\n In Hollywood, men were \u201cput on notice\u201d that shockingly standard offensive behavior, overlooked in the industry for decades, would be called out, said Professor Tara McPherson of USC\u2019s School of Cinematic Arts.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was definitely a broad recognition that women were pissed off and people weren\u2019t staying silent just to get a job,\u201dShe said.<\/p>\n The effects weren\u2019t just at an individual level, where people may have checked their own behavior a bit more. McPherson explained that the movement led to a variety of policy changes, including the firing of offenders and strengthened harassment protections for companies concerned about potential legal consequences.<\/p>\n Former \u201cHouse of Cards\u201dNetflix fired actor Kevin Spacey in 2017 after he was charged with sexual assault and harassment. Comedian Louis C.K. Since he admitted that he masturbated before women, Louis C.K. has been effectively exiled from television. Disney\u2019s Searchlight Pictures suspended filming of the movie \u201cBeing Mortal\u201dIn April, after Bill Murray allegedly Kissed and straddled<\/a>A younger production worker is shown wearing face masks. <\/p>\n The network fired CBS Leslie Moonves, once the untouchable head of CBS. This was after decades of allegations of sexual misconduct. Like a handful of other corporate chiefs, such as former Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara \u2014 who was fired after the discovery of an affair with an actress, which made him all but persona non grata in the industry. <\/p>\n In the meantime, <\/strong>SAG-AFTRA has established new standards to protect members from sexual harassment. They have banned auditions or interviews in hotels or private homes. To curb sexual harassment on the set, the Hollywood union created guidelines for intimacy coordinators. These coordinators help film intimate scenes and film television.<\/p>\n The #MeToo movement also birthed the Hollywood-centered Time\u2019s Up, an anti-workplace harassment advocacy group, which helped keep #MeToo in the spotlight. The revelations about the former governor of New York reduced that organization to a mere shell. Andrew Cuomo consulted with Time\u2019s Up leaders after he was accused of sexual harassment by a former aide.<\/p>\n #MeToo has also had a positive impact on the paltry representation of women writers in Hollywood, according to research by Harvard\u2019s Luo and Laurina Zhang of Boston University. The results were published. Earlier this year<\/a> found that Hollywood producers who had worked with Weinstein \u2014 and thus were more likely affected by the #MeToo movement \u2014 hired about 35% more female writers after the scandal.<\/p>\n This significant increase was mainly due to production teams with a female producer.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s really a scarcity of female talent behind the scenes,\u201d said Zhang, an assistant professor of Strategy and Innovation at Boston University\u2019s Questrom School of Business, who noted that only 14% of writers of the 100 top grossing films in 2017-2018 were women. \u201cSo it\u2019s great that this movement has led to more participation by female writers.\u201d<\/p>\n Other positive effects have also been attributed to the movement. Luo and Zhang also found that women who were part of Weinstein’s production teams were more likely to have male protagonists in films after #MeToo. <\/p>\n That\u2019s good news for female talent previously pigeonholed into working on lower budget rom-coms, for example, who can now break into sci-fi and other higher budget genres, Zhang said.<\/p>\n However, it doesn\u2019t help to fill the void regarding the lack of female stories on the market.\u00a0<\/p>\n Luo and Zhang also noticed a shift in the portrayal of female protagonists in stories. According to the same research, Weinstein-collaborating producers have made female protagonists less feminine since the rise of #MeToo. Luo explained that female characters were more likely be depicted as assertive and competitive in contrast to traditional gender stereotypes.<\/p>\n \u201cCultural products are very important in terms of reflecting and shaping how young people think or in reflecting societal norms,\u201dShe said. \u201cThat\u2019s the direction of what we think is progressive.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s also evidence suggesting there may be less collaboration now between women and men in some circles.<\/p>\n The University of Melbourne\u2019s Merina Gertsberg, for example, found that junior female academic economists in the U.S. started fewer new research collaborations after #MeToo. According to unpublished research, this was due in large part to fewer collaborations between female academic economists and male co-authors at one institution.<\/p>\n The main reason for the drop in collaborations was in universities <\/strong>\u201cwhere the perceived risk of sexual harassment accusations for men is high\u201d \u2014 where both sexual harassment policies are more ambiguous, exposing men to more claims, and the number of public sexual harassment incidents is high, according to the research.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is consistent with men ceasing collaborating with women to manage an increased risk of sexual harassment accusations,\u201dGertsberg wrote her article.<\/p>\n Harvard\u2019s Luo noted, however, that it\u2019s natural for people to take time to adjust to and figure out how to operate in a new culture created by a social movement.<\/p>\n \u201cHopefully,\u201dShe stated, \u201cwith enough time and more candid conversations, the individual can figure out how to adapt to the new environment and make effort to actually contribute despite [their] potential concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n After multiple celebrities accused Weinstein and others of sexual misconduct, average people whose names weren\u2019t known also began to feel empowered to seek justice, said celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who represents Haley as well as a few Weinstein accusers in the L.A. trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n Many survivors reached out to Allred for advice. Some chose to take their case to court while others chose confidential settlements. Allred is also a radio and television commentator and has been a long-standing advocate for civil rights and feminist causes. <\/p>\n \u201cAbsolutely, we\u2019re doing more confidential settlements,\u201dAllred said. \u201cIf people want to do public humiliation or public shame, they have a right to do that. They\u2019re not going to do it in a confidential settlement.\u201d <\/p>\n Such settlements don\u2019t prohibit someone from reporting an alleged crime to the police or from testifying in a criminal case against the accused, she explained.<\/p>\n Haley said the women who had spoken out against Weinstein before her \u2014 he had \u201cseemed untouchable before\u201d \u2014 helped her feel that she \u201chad an opportunity to actually be heard.\u201dShe realized it was also important to share her experiences in support of other females.<\/p>\n While #MeToo may have had an impact on reporting sexual crimes to authorities, it appears that #MeToo has also helped.<\/p>\n Two other researchers analyzed data from over 30 countries, including the U.S. and found that the number of police reports on sex crimes rose by 10% within six months of the hashtag going viral. Unpublished research<\/a> by Ro\u2019ee Levy of Tel Aviv University and Martin Mattsson of National University of Singapore. They also found that #MeToo led to an increase of sexual assault arrests across the U.S.<\/p>\n These data suggest that \u201cvictims perceive sexual misconduct to be a more serious problem following the movement,\u201dThe authors wrote.<\/p>\n More than 20 U.S. states have enacted new laws that in different ways address sexual assault or workplace harassment \u2014 partly because Hollywood is high profile, but also <\/strong>because #MeToo spread from Hollywood to other entertainment spaces like sports, along with government institutions and even churches, USC\u2019s McPherson said.<\/p>\n \u201cIts impact exceeds Hollywood. It\u2019s the systemic changes that are most important,\u201dShe said. \u201cAnd are they bigger than the changes we saw in the 70s after second-wave feminism? I don\u2019t know, but they are <\/strong>changes that in some places have been codified into law.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2019, a California law Rosanna Arquette, Mira Sorvino, and Rosanna Alquette were the supporting actresses<\/a>Protects victims of harassment sexually and their employers from defamation claims made by alleged harassers. Another state law<\/a>This law was enacted in 2015 and increased harassment training requirements for employers. <\/strong><\/p>\n After former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed her high-profile sexual harassment suit against Roger Ailes in 2016 following her firing \u2014 a case which led to the Fox News chief\u2019s resignation and a reported $20 million confidential settlement with the network \u2014 she dedicated herself to ending \u201csilencing mechanisms\u201dThe workplace’s impact on survivors.<\/p>\n In March, she attended President Joe Biden\u2019s signing into law bipartisan legislation that gives victims of workplace sexual harassment or assault the right to seek recourse in court, instead of through forced arbitration. The public is not able to see the allegations of wrongdoing because forced arbitration was often a condition for employment.<\/p>\n It\u2019s \u201cthe most significant #MeToo legislation,\u201dCarlson said that. \u201cand it\u2019s the biggest labor law change in the last 100 years.\u201d<\/p>\n Carlson is now working to pass another bipartisan bill \u2014 The Speak Out Act \u2014 which would eradicate non-disclosure agreements for workplace harassment and assault, which also serve to muzzle employees, she said. The Senate approved the bill, and the House of Representatives is still considering it.<\/p>\n \u201cThese two laws are more important than any interview I\u2019ve ever done as a 30-year career journalist,\u201dCarlson added, “They will.” \u201chelp millions\u201dnumber of employees in the workplace.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/5-Years-of-MeToo-How-the-Movement-Spread-Beyond-Hollywood.jpeg\" "\\"\\"")
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Breaking the silence<\/h2>\n
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