Recently, Oprah Winfrey sat across from seven of the women who helped start the Time’s Up campaign and asked, “Beyond raising awareness, how is this going to help the waitress, the farm worker, the factory worker, the caregiver?” Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy responded that “we have to maintain the momentum of this conversation, because they can’t.”

Talking at, over and around working-class women and then either speaking for them or ignoring them altogether has been going on forever. Talking to them, however, may just do the trick, writes Leah McBride Mensching for Iowa View.

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