#Metoo continues to make international headlines. Actresses, actors, journalists, and politicians are sharing stories about sexual harassment and assault.
As a result, powerful men in Hollywood and Washington DC have lost their jobs. But how is #metoo affecting low wage earners, who are overwhelmingly women? Restaurant workers, janitors, farm workers, and Walmart workers have been telling their stories for years. What will it take for them to be treated with dignity and respect at work?
Guests:
Sheerine Alemzadeh, attorney and co-founder of Healing to Action, a non-profit organization whose mission is to build a worker-led movement to end gender-based violence
Emily Martin, general counsel and vice president for Workplace Justice at the National Women’s Law Center
Web Resources:
National Women’s Law Center: Forced Arbitration Protects Sexual Predators and Corporate Wrongdoing
Chicago Business: (Opinion) Sexual harassment and the protection gap for Chicago's low-wage workers
Vox: The unique challenges that low-wage women face when they're sexually harassed at work
The Atlantic: Harvey Weinstein and the Economics of Consent
Labor Notes: No Casting Couch for Low-Wage Women, But Lots of Sexual Harassment
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United: The Glass Floor, Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry
Motto: Here’s What to Know Before You File a Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Vice: Working Women and the Sexual Harassment We Don't Hear About
The Cut: The Conversation We Should Be Having
CNN: The (incomplete) list of powerful men accused of sexual harassment after Harvey Weinstein
The New York Times: Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment
Vanity Fair: Anita Hill’s Legacy Lives on Among Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers