Following the rise of the #MeToo movement in 2017 and under the banner of a new initiative called “Time’s Up,” over 300 hundred artists, actresses, directors, and entertainment industry leaders on Monday issued a “unified call for change” to end the crisis of sexual harassment and assault that exists “from movie sets to farm fields to boardrooms” nationwide.
With an open letter published in the form of full-page ads in both the New York Times and the Spanish-language La Opinion on New Year’s Day, the group also launched a new website, filled with resources for working women, and announced the creation of a legal defense fund which will provide subsidized legal services for those subjected to workplace harassment and abuse.
“The struggle for women to break in, to rise up the ranks and to simply be heard and acknowledged in male-dominated workplaces must end; time’s up on this impenetrable monopoly,” the open letter states.
According to this rundown by the Times, the initiative includes:
As the Times reports, the group is “leaderless, run by volunteers and made up of working groups”—each of which focusing on different areas of the problem or specific populations under threat.
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