The anniversary of the movement #MeToo: What changed from October 2017?

The movement #MeToo started two years ago after charges were filed against the prominent Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Since then, there have been many other charges. America's voice analyzes the response and response that followed the movement #MeToo:

Since the movement started #MeToo, 41% of men say they are not ready to meet with female colleagues.

More than one in five men say they prefer not to involve women in social contacts, such as when they go for a after - work drink.

These results came from a survey of 2018. Consultant Davia Tamin is not surprised by the numbers. It runs a crisis management firm and follows an index on charges of harassment or sexual abuse against powerful people.

I think there's been a response to movement #MeToo. I don't see it as serious, or it's gonna take a long time. The movement #MeToo will not disappear. But the charges are certainly very unpleasant; change is traditionally unpopular. Men are now denied a right that they have enjoyed since the time of the caveman. Now they're exposing these acts and fighting”, says Davia Temin, of the firm “Temin & Company”.

University professor Colombia Olatunde Johnson says this movement is a major force for change.

I think one of the most important effects is that it drew attention to the problem of sexual harassment or sexual assault and offered women a way to tell their stories together. People often do not trust people who speak in isolation, but when we hear stories one by one, we begin to understand problems of the system that require answers”, she says.

According to the Women's Legal Centre, since October 2017, when the movement #MeToo came to the heart of public conscience, 15 American states have adopted new laws aimed at protecting workers from sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

Professor Johnson and Mrs. Temin recently participated in a discussion at Columbia University. Part of the discussion was publicist Shelley Oria, who has prepared a summary of the scriptures regarding the movement #MeToo:

“Internet is a very powerful platform. But there is still a simple preparation force in the nature of the Internet. Prepare us for action but not easy for the physical world for real change. In order to achieve change in laws, women's wages need to be changed in the physical world. I think that literature helps in this regard, because this volume exists in the physical world”, says Mrs. Oria, the editor of the collection “Inevitable memory”.

Retired lawyer Robert Oumette attends the discussion and says that this move has helped him to understand why some women found it difficult to pursue a career in justice:

I think it's a positive thing for people to think about how they behave when they're alone with someone and how they behave when they're in a group. Think of the circumstances that arise when they are alone with another person. Some of what I hear with shock, such as when women show how they were invited to visit their superiors in hotel rooms”, he says.

It's still early to analyze the long-term effect of moving #MeToo. Mrs. Tamin says that this move of Pandora's Box has nothing to do with it since it opened.