#MeToo’s forgotten women


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  • Wednesday, 26 Nov 2025

Chamber maids of the Ibis Batignolles Hotel demonstrating on Oct 17, 2019 outside Accor headquarters in Paris, on the third month of their strike calling for better working conditions. — AFP

“YOU need the work,” one woman said, “so you shut your mouth.”

#MeToo has reshaped Hollywood and boardrooms, but for cleaners, secretaries and supermarket workers, the movement feels like a distant echo.

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