How has Donald Trump's first year affected women?

A year since women marched across the world in protest of Trump, many view his presidency as ‘the worst we’ve ever seen for women’

On the day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States last January, millions of women took to the streets in pink-knitted “pussy hats” in protests that marked the birth of the so-called “resistance” to the incoming administration.

One year later, the #MeToo movement has spawned a moment of reckoning around sexual misconduct and gender equality. The unprecedented dialogue has brought down powerful men from entertainment, media and politics, while signaling the beginning of a transformational period for women in the workplace that has been decades in the making.

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Jessica Leeds

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Continue reading... January 18, 2018 at 08:18PM