The startup Leda Health, formerly known as MeToo Kits, aimed to disrupt the evidence-collection process for sexual assault survivors. The address ahead of a gathering for G20 financial leaders in India symbolized the U.S.' continued support of Ukraine. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a stern warning to China not to circumvent trade sanctions against Russia. after a shortage during the pandemic spotlighted China’s economic power as a leading semiconductor producer. Officials hope this will bring chip manufacturing back to the U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that funds from the $53 billion Chips Act will be invested in two innovation hubs for semiconductor production. Today’s edition was curated by Kinsey Crowley. “All of these things are connected all of these things are about restricting the progress that women have made.” But the sentences delivered Thursday show that while the road toward accountability is long, real consequences-and change-are still possible.Įmma Hinchliffe Broadsheet is Fortune’s newsletter for and about the world’s most powerful women. “We are certainly in the backlash phase,” she told us last fall, referencing the reversal of Roe v. And activists like hampton may still fear a backlash. That the final sentences in the men’s long legal fights arrived on the same day more than five years after the #MeToo hashtag went viral may just be a coincidence. The allegations against Weinstein ignited a movement Kelly’s abuses go back years and are the subject of a documentary by dream hampton. So what do these sentences mean, in the context of current public sentiment? The Kelly and Weinstein sagas are two of the most prominent #MeToo cases to make it to sentencing and offered overwhelming evidence. Judge Harry Leinenweber did note that Kelly’s victims would experience the effects of his abuse for the “rest of their lives.” Rather than keep the 56-year-old singer in prison past his 100th birthday, a federal judge opted to allow the possibility of Kelly’s release at around 80 years old. However, he will be allowed to serve all but one year of the sentence simultaneously with his existing 30-year sentence for racketeering. ![]() Kelly was handed down a 20-year sentence on his child sex convictions. In Los Angeles, Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to another 16 years in prison for rape and sexual assault on top of his existing 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York, all but ensuring the 70-year-old convicted rapist will spend the rest of his life behind bars. And two pieces of news yesterday highlighted the tension of the moment we’re in. Months later, that sense of fatigue is still palpable. ![]() ![]() Wade, the vitriol directed at Amber Heard throughout the Johnny Depp trial, and the misogynoir experienced by Megan Thee Stallion during the Tory Lanez shooting case-suggested the general public was growing weary of these stories and becoming less likely to take women at their word or rally to their defense, despite polling that shows that people still support #MeToo.
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