The ERA is back: The ’70s-era constitutional amendment could be the perfect remedy for the #MeToo era. Before #MeToo, there was Catharine A. MacKinnon and her book Sexual Harassment of Working Women. Maureen Dowd smeared Monica Lewinsky — now she’s undermining #MeToo. Anna North on why women are worried about #MeToo. Men are concerned about what #MeToo is doing to men at work. This is what life in #MeToo jail looks like: Men in exile live like they’re on the greatest vacation ever. Justice in the #MeToo era is not nearly as swift for federal employees. Domestic work is intimate, invisible — and a risk for sex abuse. Housekeepers and nannies have no protection from sexual harassment under federal law.
Marion G. Crain (WUSTL) and Kenneth Matheny (SSA): Sexual Harassment and Solidarity. Sexual harassment and the progressive movement: If you claim to be a progressive space, you can’t treat victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault as an inconvenience. Sarah Mimms goes inside a divisive fight over how a top progressive think tank handled sexual harassment. Jason Zengerle on Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from the state of #MeToo. Every lawmaker appears to want to rewrite Congress’s workplace harassment policies except GOP men.
