Sentences with phrase «by powerful men»

The closely watched lawsuit is unfolding amid heightened public scrutiny of allegations of sexual misconduct by powerful men.

And, it's bullying by a powerful man against a woman because of her looks.

Like Hollywood, Washington and New York City, Silicon Valley is in a moral crisis after a litany of revelations about predatory behavior by powerful men.

McDougal also says that the women who have come forward to report abuse by powerful men helped inspire her to talk about her situation, to the extent that she has.

The groundswell over the Harvey Weintein sexual harassment that has rocked Hollywood moved into California's capital as more than 140 women — including lawmakers, senior aides and lobbyists — came forward to denounce what they describe as pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men in the nation's most influential legislature.

It's a stunningly fast fall — and one that suggests there may be some kind of sea change in how women who allege sexual harassment by powerful men are treated.

As I posted elsewhere, if everything was done above board by the powerful man and his system of people, then what is the «reason'to keep Julie silent?

It was compiled and edited a centuries after Christ lived by powerful men, who if they could see you now would be having a good laugh at your expense.

This week, in light of even more women coming forward with stories of being abused and harassed by powerful men, she tweeted this: «If you want to know how Jesus felt about women & treated women, read the Gospels.

The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their reporting on sexual harassment that ushered in a reckoning about the treatment of women by powerful men in the uppermost ranks of Hollywood, politics, media and technology.

Several women may be looking to replace the Democratic attorney general as revelations of long - hidden abuse by powerful men upend political and cultural institutions.

When playwright - turned - filmmaker Martin McDonagh first conceived of his dark comedy «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» in which Frances McDormand plays a woman seeking justice for the rape and murder of her teen daughter, he had no idea the movie would come out in an environment rattled by tales of sexual assault by powerful men.

«Young actresses are mistreated in all sorts of ways by powerful men who can dangle jobs or access to exciting parts of show business.

The story follows a detective whose daughter is abducted by a powerful man named Falstaff, a demonic force that has terrorized his town before.

The Corrigans are in severe danger, stalked by powerful men known as the Tabula — ruthless mercenaries who have hunted Travelers for generations.

«Albany's culture is one in which young women are often mistreated and bad behavior by powerful men is condoned and covered up,» the women said in a statement.

The allegations, which Schneiderman contests but which led him to resign, emerged Monday in an article in The New Yorker, a publication he hailed just last month for reporting on Weinstein and starting a «critical national reckoning» on sexual misconduct by powerful men.

At a time when Hollywood couldn't be more sensitive about the sexual abuse meted out by powerful men, this is a film about the very worst sexual violence against women, with McDormand playing a grieving and furiously angry mother still mourning her pretty daughter, who was raped and murdered by an unknown attacker.