The Me Too Era: How we got here & what's next

The Me Too movement has brought a long-needed course correction to sexual harassment, sexual intimidation, and workplace sexual abuse. This lecture goes over the chronology of events to understand why this has happened right now and then exams policy dilemmas of competing values about due process, victim protection, offender punishments, and differing approaches within, and outside of, feminism.

Pepper Schwartz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington where she has been the Elsa and Clarence Schrag Fellow and created the Pepper Schwartz fellowship for graduate students studying sexuality or intimate relationships. She received her BA Magna Cum Laude and MA (as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow) from Washington University in St. Louis. Her PhD is from Yale University where she also served many years on the graduate school alumni council. She is the author of 25 books (two of which were on the New York Times bestseller list) and over 50 academic articles.  She received the Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of Sociology from the American Sociological Association and the Simon and Gagnon award for achievement in the study of human sexuality. Dr. Schwartz has written for both lay and professional readers and is one of the three on-air relationship experts on Lifetime Network's Marriage at First Sight, now in it's tenth season.  She was the AARP's love and relationship ambassador for over a decade and most recently has served on the advisory board of the Program on Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota which has created the Pepper Schwartz Professorship in Sexuality and Aging which will be announced in the fall of 2019.