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# What Happens When a Woman is the Perpetrator?

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 After an 11 month investigation. Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male graduate student. She was suspended from teaching for the current academic year. Would one of her male colleagues have been treated the same? And what does this mean for the #MeToo movement? For more on this topic, we suggest reading this intriguing *New York Times* article by Zoe Greenberg.

[What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/sexual-harassment-nyu-female-professor.html)

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