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Maria Aspan, Erika Fry, Emma Hinchliffe, Beth Kowitt

The women behind #MeToo, 5 years later

(Credit: Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare; CLOCKWise from top left: Burke: Richard Bord—Getty Images; Amanpour: Dia Dipasupil—Getty Images; Hampton: Chris Pizzello—Invision/AP Photo; Pao: David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images; Gupta: Bebeto Matthews—AP Photo; Carlson: Lou Rocco—Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images; Protest images: Apu Gomes, Bill Tompkins, Sarah Morris, Timothy A. Clary—all Getty Images)

On Oct. 5, 2017, the New York Times broke the Harvey Weinstein story, igniting a global conversation about sexual harassment. In its aftermath, more women started to tell their own stories in ways both big and small, by going to the press to expose their harassers, or simply by writing #MeToo on social media—and often their voices helped push the culprits out of their jobs. Five years later, we spoke with women who played a part in the movement to take stock of how society has—and hasn’t—changed. 

These edited Q&As have been condensed for space and clarity.

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