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Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Figure skating is tough on its young competitors, Twitter's CEO takes parental leave, and Anita Hill is honoring the fifth anniversary of #MeToo. The Broadsheet will be off on Monday for Presidents' Day in the U.S.—see you back here on Tuesday.
- Anniversary to remember. As we noted last week, 2022 will mark the fifth anniversary of the #MeToo movement. Time flies, huh?
In honor of the occasion, Anita Hill will author a series of op-eds for Fortune. Her first one is out this morning and its an homage to Susan Fowler who, in February 2017, was thrown into the public eye after detailing the rampant misogyny and harassment she faced at Uber.
Fowler (who now goes by Susan Rigetti) set the stage for the #MeToo reckoning that would come eight months later. Now, Hill argues, "we should credit Fowler for showing employers how to respond to sexual harassment complaints." Coming from Hill—who testified before Congress about workplace sexual harassment three decades ago—that's high praise. The law professor elaborates in her op-ed:
The Uber Blog offered companies three frames of reference for progress that remain salient: Clean up contaminated cultures; fix broken structures; and empower workers, victims, and bystanders. Fowler revealed how leaders, especially those in management who engaged in...
CNN is defending its reporting on a statement given by Iranian officials regarding a ceasefire agreement the U.S. and Iran reached just hours before President Trump was set to launch an attack on ...