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Reckoning With #MeToo and the Aftermath: Perception of Workplace Harassment, Sexism, and the #MeToo Movement Among Journalists in India

Reckoning With #MeToo and the Aftermath: Perception of Workplace Harassment, Sexism, and the #MeToo Movement Among Journalists in India

Prabhjot Kaur Sohal
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781799866862|ISBN10: 1799866866|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799866879|EISBN13: 9781799866886
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6686-2.ch007
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Sohal, Prabhjot Kaur. "Reckoning With #MeToo and the Aftermath: Perception of Workplace Harassment, Sexism, and the #MeToo Movement Among Journalists in India." Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism, edited by Sadia Jamil, et al., IGI Global, 2021, pp. 104-118. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6686-2.ch007

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Sohal, P. K. (2021). Reckoning With #MeToo and the Aftermath: Perception of Workplace Harassment, Sexism, and the #MeToo Movement Among Journalists in India. In S. Jamil, B. Çoban, B. Ataman, & G. Appiah-Adjei (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism (pp. 104-118). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6686-2.ch007

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Sohal, Prabhjot Kaur. "Reckoning With #MeToo and the Aftermath: Perception of Workplace Harassment, Sexism, and the #MeToo Movement Among Journalists in India." In Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism, edited by Sadia Jamil, et al., 104-118. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6686-2.ch007

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Abstract

In 2017, following the #MeToo movement stirred by the public outing of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the safety of women at the workplace became a prime agenda for international news media. Although far from being truly inclusive, the #MeToo movement rapidly spread to other parts of the world. Women of different nationalities, backgrounds, and race shared their stories of abuse and survival using the #MeToo hashtag and its variants. In 2018, women within the news media industry in India joined the movement and called out prominent editors, filmmakers, and artists on social media for perpetrating and abetting acts of sexual harassment and abuse against them. As an immediate result, several accused were made to resign from their organizations and dropped from prestigious public posts. However, a backlash to the movement followed soon after, most evidently in the form of victim-shaming and defamation lawsuits against women. Based on the theory of epistemic advantage, the study explores the perception of sexual harassment among journalists in India using in-depth interviews.

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