By JAMILLAH BOWMAN WILLIAMS and ELIZABETH TIPPETT
10/14/2022 11:16 AM EDT
Good morning, rulers! Katie here, but I’ll be turning it over to a pair of guest contributors momentarily. Email me at [email protected]. Thank you to Maya Parthasarathy for your help putting the newsletter together! Now from our guests, Jamillah Bowman Williams and Elizabeth Tippett …
Five years ago this month, a single tweet from actress Alyssa Milano inviting women to use activist Tarana Burke’s iconic phrase “Me Too” went viral, unleashing waves of public accusations against high-profile men for sexual misconduct.
As law professors who study workplace harassment, we worried at the time that the stories dominating the headlines — of bad men who did bad things without consequence — would distract from more systemic problems that contribute to harassment and discrimination
We wondered whether the #MeToo movement would offer meaningful reform for working women. Five years later, the short answer is “yes.” A flurry of legislation related to gender equity in the workplace has been introduced in recent years. Our team of researchers and lawyers at Georgetown University and the University of Oregon have collected over 3,000 state and federal bills from 2016-2022, some of which passed into law. While our research continues, here are the first and clearest takeaways of how the #MeToo movement has had a real impact on our legal system.
State legislatures...
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh criticised the Election Commission of India (ECI) on October 2 for appointing a committee to review ECINET’s compliance with legal provisions, describing the commissi...