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"All I wanted was a much[br]deserved promotion,

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and he told me to 'get up on the desk

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and spread 'em.'"

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"All the men in my office[br]wrote down on a piece of paper

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the sexual favors[br]that I could do for them.

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All I had asked for[br]was an office with a window."

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"I asked for his advice about how[br]I could get a bill out of committee;

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he asked me if I brought my kneepads."

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Those are just a few[br]of the horrific stories

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that I heard from women over the last year

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as I've been investigating[br]workplace sexual harassment.

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And what I found out

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is that it's an epidemic across the world.

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It's a horrifying reality[br]for millions of women

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when all they want to do[br]everyday is go to work.

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Sexual harassment doesn't discriminate.

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You can wear a skirt,

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hospital scrubs,

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army fatigues.

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You can be young or old,

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married or single,

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black or white.

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You can be a republican,

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a democrat,

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or an independent.

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I heard from so many women:

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police officers,

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members of our military,

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financial assistants,

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actors,

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engineers,

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lawyers,

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bankers,

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accountants,

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teachers ...

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journalists.

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Sexual harassment,

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it turns out,

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is not about sex.

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It's about power,

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and about what somebody does to you

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to try and take away your power.

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And I'm here today

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to encourage you to know[br]that you can take that power back.

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(Applause)

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On July 6, 2016,

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I jumped off a cliff all by myself.

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It was the scariest moment of my life;

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an excruciating choice to make.

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I fell into an abyss all alone,

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not knowing what would be below.

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But then something miraculous[br]started to happen.

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Thousands of women[br]started reaching out to me

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to share their own stories[br]of pain and agony and shame.

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They told me that I became their voice --

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they were voiceless.

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And suddenly I realized[br]that even in the 21st century,

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every woman still has a story.

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Like [Joyce,]

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a flight attendant supervisor

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whose boss,

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in meetings every day,

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would tell her about the porn[br]that he'd watched the night before

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while drawing penises on his notepad.

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She went to complain;

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she was called "crazy" and fired.

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Like [Joanne,]

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Wall Street banker.

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Her male colleagues would call her[br]that bile c-word every day.

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She complained --

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labeled a troublemaker,

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never to do another[br]Wall Street deal again.

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Like [Elizabeth,] an army officer.

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Her male subordinates would wave[br]one-dollar bills in her face,

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and say, "dance for me."

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And when she went to complain to a major,

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he said, "What? Only one dollar?

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You're worth at least five or ten!"

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After reading,

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replying to all

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and crying over all of these emails,

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I realized I had so much work to do.

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Here are the startling facts.

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One in three women that we know of

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have been sexually harassed[br]in the workplace.

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71 percent of those incidences[br]never get reported.

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Why?

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Because when women come forward,

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they're still called liars[br]and troublemakers,

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and demeaned and trashed,

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and demoted and blacklisted,

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and fired.

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Reporting sexual harassment can be[br]in many cases career-ending.

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Of all the women that reached out to me,

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almost none are still today working[br]in their chosen profession,

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and that is outrageous.

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I too was silent in the beginning.

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It happened to me at the end[br]of my year as Miss America,

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when I was meeting with a very[br]high-ranking tv executive

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in New York City.

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I thought he was helping me[br]throughout the day,

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making a lot of phone calls,

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we went to dinner.

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And in the back seat of a car,

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he suddenly lunged on top of me

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and stuck his tongue down my throat.

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I didn't realize that to[br]"get into the business," --

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silly me --

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he also intended to get into my pants.

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And just a week later,

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when I was in Los Angeles,

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meeting with a high-ranking publicist,

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it happened again.

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Again, in a car.

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And he took my neck in his hand,

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and he shoved my head[br]so hard into his crotch,

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I couldn't breathe.

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These are the events that suck the life[br]out of all of your self-confidence.

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These are the events that until recently,

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I didn't even call assault.

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And this is why we have[br]so much work to do.

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After my year as Miss America,

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I continued to meet[br]a lot of well-known people ...

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including Donald Trump.

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When this picture was taken in 1988,

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nobody could've predicted[br]where we'd be today.

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(Laughter)

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Me, fighting to end sexual[br]harassment in the workplace;

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he, president of the United States

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in spite of it.

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And shortly thereafter,

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I got my first gig in television news[br]in Richmond, Virginia.

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Check out that confident smile[br]with the bright pink jacket --

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not so much the hair.

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(Laughter)

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I was working so hard to prove[br]that blondes have a lot of brains.

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But ironically,

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one of the first stories I covered

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was the Anita Hill hearings[br]in Washington, DC.

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And shortly thereafter,

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I too was sexually harassed[br]in the workplace.

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I was covering a story in rural Virginia,

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and when we got back into the car,

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my cameraman started saying to me,

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wondering how much I had enjoyed[br]how he touched my breasts

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when he put the microphone on me,

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and it went downhill from there.

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I was bracing myself[br]against the passenger door --

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this was before cellphones.

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I was petrified.

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I actually envisioned myself[br]rolling outside of that door

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as the car was going 50 miles per hour[br]like I'd seen in the movies,

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and wondering how much it would hurt.

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When the story about[br]Harvey Weinstein came to light --

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one the most well-known[br]movie moguls in all of Hollywood --

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the allegations were horrific,

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but so many women came forward,

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and it made me realize[br]what I had done meant something.

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(Applause)

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He had such a lame excuse.

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He said he was a product[br]of the '60s and '70s,

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and that that was the culture then.

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Yeah, that was the culture then,

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and unfortunately it still is.

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Why?

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Because of all the myths

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that are still associated[br]with sexual harassment.

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"Women should just take another job[br]and find another career."

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Yeah, right.

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Tell that to the single mom[br]working two jobs,

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trying to make ends meet,

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who's also being sexually harassed.

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"Women ...

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they bring it on themselves."

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By the clothes that we wear

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and the makeup that we put on.

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Yeah, I guess those hoodies[br]that Uber engineers wear

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in Silicon Valley are just so provocative.

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"Women make it up."

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Yeah, because it's so fun and rewarding

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to be demeaned and taken down --

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I would know.

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"Women bring these claims because[br]they want to be famous and rich."

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Our own president said that.

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I bet Taylor Swift,

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one of the most well-known[br]and richest singers in the world,

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didn't need more money or fame

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when she came forward[br]with her groping case

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for one dollar.

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And I'm so glad she did.

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Breaking news:

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The Untold Story About Women[br]and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.

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Women just want a safe, welcoming

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and harassment-free environment.

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That's it.

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(Applause)

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So how do we go about[br]getting out power back?

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I have three solutions.

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Number one.

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We need to turn bystanders[br]and enablers into allies.

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98 percent of United States [br]corporations right now

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have sexual harassment training policies.

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70 percent have prevention programs.

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But still, overwhelmingly,

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bystanders and witnesses[br]don't come forward.

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In 2016,

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the Harvard Business Review[br]called it the "Bystander Effect."

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And yet, remember 9/11?

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Millions of times we've heard,

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"if you see something,

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say something."

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Imagine how impactful that would be[br]if we carried that through

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to bystanders in the workplace[br]regarding sexual harassment.

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To recognize and interrupt[br]these incidences,

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to confront the perpetrators[br]to their face,

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to help and protect the victims.

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This is my shoutout to men.

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We need you in this fight.

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And to women, too --

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enablers to allies.

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Number two.

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Change the laws.

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How many of you out there know

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whether or not you have[br]a forced arbitration clause

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in your employment contract?

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Not a lot of hands.

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And if you don't know, you should.

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And here's why.

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"TIME Magazine" calls it,

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right there on the screen,

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"The teeny tiny little print in contracts

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that keeps sexual[br]harassment claims unheard."

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Here's what it is.

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Forced arbitration takes away[br]your Seventh Amendment right

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to an open jury process.

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It's secret.

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You don't get the same[br]witnesses or depositions.

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In many cases, the company[br]picks the arbitrator for you.

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There are no appeals,

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and only 20 percent of the time[br]does the employee win.

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But again, it's secret,

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so nobody ever knows what happened to you.

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This is why I've been[br]working so diligently

0:11:27.853,0:11:29.508
on Capitol Hill in Washington DC

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to change the laws,

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and here's what I tell the senators.

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Sexual harassment is apolitical.

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Before somebody harasses you,

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they don't ask you if you're[br]a Republican or Democrat first.

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They just do it.

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And this is why we should all care.

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Number three.

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Be fierce.

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It starts when we stand tall

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and we build that self-confidence.

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And we stand up and we speak up,

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and we tell the world what happened to us.

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I know it's scary,

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but let's do it for our kids.

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Let's stop this for the next generations.

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I know that I did it for my children.

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They were paramount in my decision-making

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about whether or not I would come forward.

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My beautiful children,

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my 12-year-old son, Christian,

0:12:18.728,0:12:20.668
my 14-year-old daughter, Kaia.

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And boy did I underestimate them.

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The first day of school last year[br]happened to be the day

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my resolution was announced,

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and I was so anxious[br]about what they would face.

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My daughter came home from school,

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and she said, "Mommy,[br]so many people asked me

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what happened to you over the summer."

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Then she looked at me in the eyes,

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and she said, "And mommy,

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I was so proud to say[br]that you were my mom."

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And two weeks later,

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when she finally found the courage[br]to stand up to two kids

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who had been making her life miserable,

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she came home to me and she said,

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"Mommy, I found the courage to do it

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because I saw you do it."

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(Applause)

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You see, giving the gift[br]of courage is contagious.

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And I hope that my journey[br]has inspired you,

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because right now is the tipping point.

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We are watching history happen.

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More and more women are coming forward

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and saying, "Enough and is enough."

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(Applause)

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Here's my one last plea to companies.

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Let's hire back all those women[br]whose careers were lost

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because of some random jerk.

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Because here's what I know about women.

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We will not longer be underestimated,[br]intimidated or set back.

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We will not be silenced[br]by the ways of the establishment

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or the relics of the past.

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No.

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We will stand up and speak up,

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and have our voices heard.

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We will be the women we were meant to be.

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And above all,

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we will always be fierce.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)