OUT FOR A COUPLE.
DAVID AND PAULA, BACK TO YOU.
TIME MAGAZINE HAS NAMED THE
SILENCE BREAKERS WHO GAVE POWER
TO THE ME TOO MOVEMENT AS THE
PERSON OF THE YEAR.
THE ME TOO MOVEMENT HAS
ENCOURAGED WOMEN TO OPEN UP
ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
AS WBZ'S CHRISTINA HAGER
FOUND, WOMEN FROM ALL WALKS OF
LIFE ARE PRAISING THE MAGAZINE
FOR RECOGNIZING A MOMENT THAT
HAS SHIFTED OUR CULTURE.
Reporter: WORKPLACE
CONSULTANT SPEAKING AT THE
WOMEN'S WORKPLACE SUMMIT IN
SOUTH BOSTON ABOUT TIME MAGAZINE
BREAKING TRADITION WITH A NOD TO
THOSE BREAKING SILENCE.
INSTEAD OF PERSON OF THE YEAR,
ITS ANNUAL HONOR GOES TO A GROUP
OF SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS WHO
SPOKE UP.
THEY DECIDED WHO WOULD BE
HONORED AND ANNOUNCED AS PERSON
OF THE YEAR.
HERE IN BOSTON, WHERE WE'VE
HAD OUR OWN SHARE OF SILENCE
BREAKERS, TIME MAGAZINE'S CHOICE
HITS HOME.
FALL-OUT AFTER STANLEY
ROSENBERG'S HUSBAND CAME
FORWARD, GOLD MEDALIST ALY
RAISMAN BROKE HER SILENCE ABOUT
HER FORMER OLYMPIC TEAM DOCTOR.
AND FORMER NEWS ANCHOR HEATHER
UNRU WENT PUBLIC WITH
ACCUSATIONS THAT ACTOR KEVIN
SPACEY ASSAULTED HER SON.
I THINK IT DOES MAKE PEOPLE
THINK TWICE OR HOPEFULLY
CONSIDER THEIR ACTIONS WHICH
THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TOTALLY OKAY
TO DO BEFORE.
IT'S SUCH AN IMPORTANT TIME
RIGHT NOW FOR WOMEN IN OUR
SOCIETY BUT ALSO FOR MEN AND
CHANGING THE CONVERSATION.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE ISN'T
HEALING TO DO.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T NEED
TO HAVE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY FOR
BEHAVIOR BUT IT DOES MEAN WE ARE
HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Reporter: TURNS OUT TIME
MAGAZINE'S SILENCE BREAKERS HAVE
THE BACKING OF COUNTLESS WOMEN
HERE, HOPING THEY CAN TURN THE
