Soraya Chemaly, author of "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger", writes "As this pandemic unfolds, this caregiver second shift is becoming a third and fourth shift."

Keeping girls safe has to include keeping them healthy and in charge of their own bodies. Purity tests and other age-old patriarchal parenting tactics do the opposite.

By adulthood, anger is most commonly associated with power for and by men and with powerlessness for and by women. This is because anger in men confirms gender role beliefs and expectations, but anger in women confounds them.

As we enter the next phase of #MeToo, outing more “bad men” isn’t enough. The urgent question we face in this moment is why half the population persistently refuses to believe the millions of women who say sexual harassment and assault shape our lives, and are maintaining our inequality. If men are not adequately protecting, if they are not needed to provide, then what does this mean for men as individuals?

In the wake of now more than 40 women coming forward with allegations, many people continue to ask, “Why didn’t the women say something?” “Why didn’t they report him?” There are many good reasons women don’t report these experiences in the workplace, not the least of which is persistent systemic and institutionalized tolerance, starting at very young ages.