Post #MeToo Movement, Women Not Afraid To Speak Out: Priya Ramani
Priya Ramani has accused former editor and Union minister MJ Akbar of sexual harassment.
Kolkata:
Priya Ramani, the journalist who accused former editor and Union minister MJ Akbar of sexual harassment, on Thursday mentioned the #MeToo marketing campaign has led to girls talking out in all places concerning the sexual harassment they face.
Because the release of the #MeToo marketing campaign 3 years again, there have been 35 million tweets global over until 2019 in this factor, she mentioned quoting a UN knowledge.
Addressing a consultation of the Tata Metal Kolkata Literary Meet, Ms Ramani mentioned that is simplest the top of the entire scenario.
Round 200 girls had spoken out as a part of the #MeToo marketing campaign in India, she added. “We have now reached this sort of level the place girls aren’t afraid to talk out.”
Ms Ramani has been preventing a defamation case for her fees in opposition to the minister who denied the fee and later resigned from the cupboard.
After the scandal involving Hollywood magnate Harvey Weinstein hit the headlines in the USA in 2017, the #MeToo marketing campaign kicked off with celebrities popping out with their tales of sexual harassment, particularly on the place of business. The marketing campaign quickly unfold to India, with maximum accusations coming from Bollywood and the media trade.
Talking at the subject “2020 Imaginative and prescient: Being Woman”, the editor and commentator mentioned girls have been most commonly observed in flights as attendants prior to now, now one-third of the pilots of a selected personal airline are girls. “Girls also are flying fighter jets,” she mentioned.
The journalist additionally lauded West Bengal Leader Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee for fielding 17 girls applicants in remaining Lok Sabha elections, a lot of whom had received.
