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Inside the fight to make the European Parliament take sexual harassment seriously

Author: Nicole Fallert

In: Vox, 2019

Outlines how the MeToo movement in 2017 prompted Jeanne Ponte, a French parliamentary assistant who had been keeping a record of workplace sexual harassment inside the EU parliament since 2014, to create the MeTooEP blog. Soon after the story of her recording of social harassment broke, MEPs at Strasbourg passed a resolution against sexual harassment. Over 1,000 people then signed a petition demanding enforcement of it.

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https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/1823460/me-too-european-parliament-leads-to-sexual-harassment-pledge