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If 2017 was the year of me too, 2018 must be the year of real change

We should applaud the brave women who spoke out. But the obligation to prevent harassment falls on all of us—and means questioning the nature of insecure work

By Dawn Foster  
December 11, 2017
January 2018

Politics, film, the media: in each, a culture of insecure work is exploited by abusers.

To his tweeted chagrin, grabber-in-chief Donald Trump was not Time magazine’s person of 2017. That honour fell instead to a group: the “Silence Breakers,” the #metoo movement of people first in Hollywood, then globally who risked their careers, professional relationships, and in some cases personal safety to blow the whistle on sexual harassment, abuse and assault.

That certain industries—Hollywood, the media, theatre and politics—have been hit by near-identical scandals is hardly surprising. All…

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Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster is a writer with a focus on politics and social affairs. She is a contributing editor at Guardian Housing and the author of Lean Out (Repeater Books, 2016)

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