The Golden Globes are the beginning of the Award Season. This year, they were also the beginning of a new Hollywood that is about to change. In recent years, there have been a lot of incidences of sexual abuse of women in Hollywood. However, these occurrences are not uncommon – at least this is what the protest movement #MeToo shows. Many women in Hollywood, including celebrities such as Lupita Nyong'o, Angelina Jolie, and Gwyneth Paltrow, used this hashtag to show that they are victims of sexual abuse too. In response to this debate and the Harvey Weinstein effect, the “Time's Up” movement, is a campaign against sexual harassment founded in 2018. Studies show that one in three women in the age of 18 to 34, were sexually harassed at work – 71% of these women didn’t report that.
In order to win supporters for this initiative, the evening of the awards was in dedicated to the cause of the organization. Actress Reese Witherspoon has even ordered badges to use the logo of the movement to show that Hollywood is not looking away: "We want to show that women are united, always were united, and that we stand up for those who cannot do it themselves," the actress clarified.