Five years on, how #MeToo shook the world

MeToo rallies kicked off in the United States and swept the world

MeToo rallies kicked off in the United States and swept the world

By forcing the world to wake up to the daily sexual abuse suffered by women, the #MeToo movement became a social revolution of historic importance.

"#MeToo showed that sexual and sexist violence was a daily reality, that it was banal," said Sandrine Ricci, a sociologist at the University of Quebec in Montreal.

Originally published as Five years on, how #MeToo shook the world