#Metoo, Time's Up — What Now? Ensuring Opportunity for All Women and Girls
Things like misogyny and white supremacy, they don’t exist in isolation — they are actually dependent upon each other.
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By some measures, American women are enjoying more opportunity today than ever before. And the #MeToo movement brought women’s stories of surviving harassment and assault to the center of the national conversation in an unprecedented way. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find that critical disparities persist when it comes to income security, health and reproductive rights, education access, and workplace fairness — especially with regard to low-income women and women of color. Explore the most significant gains of recent years, and the most vexing challenges in the struggle for a society that truly values all women.
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