The #MeToo movement that witnessed women coming forward to expose pervasive sexual harassment has “staying power”. It will not succumb to a backlash, said US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Here to stay
Ginsburg said in an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow at Columbia University on Sunday (Feb 11) that the #
MeToo movement is here to stay and symbolizes a monumentous shift in American culture.
“It’s amazing to me that, for the first time, women are really listened to,” she said. “Because sexual harassment had often been dismissed as, ‘Well, she made it up,’ or ‘She’s too thin-skinned.’ So I think it’s a very healthy development.”
'Equal stature of men and women is as fundamental as the basic human rights,' she said.
"For the first time, women are really listened to because sexual harassment had often been dismissed as 'well, she made it up.'" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ginsburg said that while 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law, 'every Constitution in the world written since the year 1950 has the equivalent statement that men and women are people of equal citizenship stature'.
'I would like to be able to take out that pocket constitution and say to : "You see this statement of the equal stature of men and women is as fundamental as the basic human rights. The right to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the equal stature of men and women.''
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