New culture emerging from ‘watershed’ #MeToo movement: ex-Norway PM

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/02
By: Christie Chen

Taipei, April 2 (CNA) Gro Harlem Brundtland, the first female prime minister of Norway, on Monday described the #MeToo campaign against sexual assault and harassment as a “watershed” moment for women and predicted the emergence of a new culture in which women will be believed when they speak out.

There is still male harassment of women in the workplace and the people who have tried to speak up have been silenced because it is an uncomfortable topic to discuss, the 78-year-old former Norwegian prime minister, who is visiting Taiwan to attend the Gro Brundtland Week of Women in Sustainable Development, told CNA in an interview at the Tang Prize Foundation.

Speaking with Norwegian broadcaster NRK in November last year, Brundtland revealed that she too had been sexually harassed when she was a young doctor by an assistant physician 10 years her senior.    [FULL  STORY]