#MeToo changed Hollywood – but what about our schools, workplaces and homes? | Rosamund Cloke

Out of public view, far from the high-profile convictions, sexual harassment is still scarily common

• This article has won the Guardian Foundation’s 2021 Young Hugo award, which champions political opinion writing among 16- to 18-year-olds

Women’s rights have been the focus of many protests in Britain this year. After the rape and murder of Sarah Everard and the killing of the teacher Sabina Nessa, women demonstrated over the lack of safety on the country’s streets.

Beyond British shores, when news broke that the Taliban had once again begun restricting Afghan women’s lives and the debate about the legitimacy of abortion restarted in the US, it became clear that the threat to women’s rights was increasing around the world.

Rosamund Cloke, from Bishop Challoner school in the London borough of Bromley, has won the Guardian Foundation’s Young Hugo Award 2021 for political opinion writing with this article

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