A Critical Discussion of the Time's Up Now Campaign: Achievements

This essay provides a critical discussion of the Time's Up Now campaign, a women's movement founded in 2018 to advocate for safe, dignified, and fair work, especially for underrepresented groups. It highlights the campaign's benefits, including increased awareness of women's rights, education on hostile work environments, and guidance for victims of harassment. The essay points to decreased rates of assault and workplace unfairness, increased membership and volunteering, and policy changes protecting workers. However, it also acknowledges failures, such as interference from political forces and complaints about the movement's focus on social media over direct action. The essay references various sources to support its analysis of the campaign's impact and challenges.

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CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF THE TIME’S UP NOW CAMPAIGN OUTCOMES
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What is Time’s up now?
TIMES’UP now is a women movement/ organization founded on 1st 2018. Its main
agenda and objective for formation was to insist on a safe, dignified and fair work for the less
represented groups and more so the women. Its geared towards addressing the continuous trend
on inequality and injustice that happens mostly in workplaces. Some of the issues that this
campaign movement targets include sexual assault on women and work place inequality and
safety. (Thomson, 2018)
The benefits of the campaign
The movement has helped in enlightening women on their rights. With support from
various stakeholders like lawyers, successful Hollywood actresses and funding agencies, the
movement has been able to create awareness to its target groups on what sexual harassment is,
how to spot instances that can lead to sexual harassment, how to identify the form of sexual
harassment and signs leading to the assault. (TIMES' UP, 2019) Moreover, the campaign has
been able to educate women on hostile working environment that women have been exposed to
initially. Lastly on the benefits, the campaign has sphere headed a way out for those women who
may be victims of any of these challenges. It has done so by pinpointing on what to do incase
these acts happen. Some of these include; speaking to the harasser when being offended, being
keen enough to keep copies of everything they send or even receive from potential harasser and
reporting cases of harassment and mistreatment.
Decreased rate of assault
The TIMES’ UP now campaign was purposely established to end the war on women
assault and work place mistreatment. Since its formation, reports from its management
executives and website indicate that many people, both male and female have joined the
movement. This is an indicator of how the movement has been effective in actualizing its
objectives. According to reports from the organization, for the one year, it can be noted that there
has been reduced cases of women sexual assault, more so in their workplace. This has been so
due to change in the existing status quo where initially, cases on sexual harassments were not
seriously considered and victims could easily get away with it. Currently, once a case on sexual

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assault is reported, actions are being taken upon the harasser immediately and this has greatly
contributed to the decrease in the rate of assault and more so the sexual assault.
Increased membership and volunteering
Due to the many benefits being associated with the movement, it has attracted many
people both men and women to be part of this campaign. Sources on the website indicate that the
campaign is gaining a lot of relevancy. According to (Dickler, 2018)Since launching of the
TIME’S UP legal defense fund, more than 3800 both women and men from the 50 states have
been reaching out for help from this organization. Lawyers and policy makers have also
volunteered to be part of this campaign and therefore helping it in actualizing its objectives. The
organization is also encouraging women in leadership positions to be part of this movement as a
way of giving the campaign stronger support.
Decreased rate of work place unfairness, mistreatment and assault
According to the TIMES’ UP now website, through legal resources, more than 3400
individuals have registered with the movement. From this number, two thirds have been
conducting to report on matters concerning workplace injustice, for instance, the issue on low
wages. This has forced the organization to implement policies that protect workers, both male
and female from mistreatment in their work place. Employers are now bound by policies
regarding their employees’ salaries. The government through the attorneys have teamed up
globally to take upon such cases. This has also encouraged women representation in the
organizations where they are being encouraged to seek for leadership position in different
organizations and agencies.
Failures within the movement
The movement has greatly been interfered with by political forces. Despite numerous
funding’s from legal funds, not all these resources are being used purposely for its objectives.
This has seen many women complaining with claims like, the movement is more active with
social media hashtags more than they are acting and responding to members. (Clark, 2018)

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References
Clark, C., (2018). Hollywood's #TimesUp movement still fails young women, despite buzz and accolades.
Washington examiner journal, 23(9), pp. 12-52.
Dickler, J., (2018). TimesUp changes workplace relationships well beyond Hollywood. Personal finance
journal , 77(12), pp. 9-31.
Thomson, S., (2018). How the Time's Up movement turned talk into action. Education, Gender and work
journal, 2(9), p. 6.
TIMES' UP, (2019). TIMES' UP NOW. [Online]
Available at: https://www.timesupnow.com/#
[Accessed 15 Jan 2019].