Time's Up Advertising Forges Ahead With the Challenging Task of Changing an Entire Industry

How far the movement has come, and where it goes from here

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January marks the one-year anniversary of an email chain that included 14 prominent female ad industry leaders who came together because they were—and still are—fed up with sexual harassment in the workplace. Those emails quickly turned into phone calls, which became meetings and led to a movement now known as Time’s Up Advertising.

Today, nearly 200 agency executives have pledged they will no longer accept bad behavior, discrimination and inequality. The organization is led by a steering committee that recently released a charter with three clear pillars for the type of workplace it aims to create: safe, fair and dignified.

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