Meanwhile, several other women’s rights activists have faced smear campaigns on social media and some have seen their accounts shuttered. When Huang helped spark a grassroots #MeToo movement in China in 2018, it gained fairly wide visibility and achieved some measure of success, including getting the civil code to define sexual harassment for the first time. But it was also met with stiff resistance from Chinese authorities, who are quick to counter any social movement they fear could challenge their hold on power. The #MeToo movement burst into view in China, when Huang helped a woman named Luo Xixi to publicly accuse her professor at Beihang University of trying to force her to have sex with him. Kochi Infopark firm among India’s most women-friendly workplacesStill, activists are hopeful that the #MeToo movement has opened a door that cannot be shut.

Source: The Hindu November 24, 2021 12:30 UTC