{"id":562,"date":"2018-01-19T14:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/?p=562"},"modified":"2018-01-19T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:37:43","slug":"womens-rally-in-london-21-january-2018-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/2018\/01\/19\/womens-rally-in-london-21-january-2018-one-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s rally in London 21 January 2018 &#8211; one year on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/177\/files\/2018\/01\/womens-march-2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-561\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/177\/files\/2018\/01\/womens-march-2018-300x172.png\" alt=\"womens march 2018\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/files\/2018\/01\/womens-march-2018-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/files\/2018\/01\/womens-march-2018.png 505w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/files\/2018\/01\/womens-march-2018-500x286.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A March has been organised in London by the Women\u2019s March London team, the Time\u2019s Up anniversary rally will start opposite Downing Street on Sunday 21 January. In a statement, the event organisers said: \u201cOne year on, we are coming together to say Time\u2019s Up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Time is up Initiative\u00a0was launched at the start of January 2018 as a response to the #MeToo movement and the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Spearheaded by women working in the entertainment business in the US, the initiative provides advice and support to women across all industries who have experienced sexual harassment or abuse at work. Women of all ages and backgrounds have spoken out about their experiences of harassment and assault, reshaping assumptions about the prevalence of sexual misconduct. In the UK, a coalition of MPs and women\u2019s groups\u00a0demanded the government\u00a0\u00a0strengthen laws around sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The rally organisers are also hoping to focus attention on a wide range of issues including gender-based violence, sexual harassment and abuse; Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, transphobia, homophobia and ableism; the gender pay gap; underfunding for domestic violence services; menstrual poverty and climate change denial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A March has been organised in London by the Women\u2019s March London team, the Time\u2019s Up anniversary rally will start opposite Downing Street on Sunday 21 January. In a statement, the event organisers said: \u201cOne year on, we are coming together to say Time\u2019s Up.\u201d The Time is up Initiative\u00a0was launched at the start of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/2018\/01\/19\/womens-rally-in-london-21-january-2018-one-year-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Women&#8217;s rally in London 21 January 2018 &#8211; one year on&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}