It's Time!

Women have linked arms across race, ethnicity and lifestyle to affect change in every culture.

- Jo Mooy

It’s impossible to ignore how stories about women have been taking over our daily conversations. The year 2017 began with the Women’s March on Washington. That was followed by determination and commitment when thousands of women not only registered to vote but began filling out paperwork to run for elective office. The momentum had begun!

Then one day, one woman, fed up with men like film mogul Harvey Weinstein, who had been preying on women for years, said:

ENOUGH!

She went public. The reaction to her story was noticeably different than how women with similar stories had been treated in the past. She was soon followed by a tidal wave of women across every profession who bravely told their stories of sexual harassment in the workplace.

It spawned a movement called #MeToo when women realized they were not alone. Though the media covered the military, Capitol Hill, entertainment, technology and medicine, the greatest numbers of sexual assaults were in the underreported industries of hotel and food services, retail and manufacturing. Those women, unheard by the press, came out in the millions to declare: #MeToo.