#MeToo inspires Google walkout

At Google offices around the world - from Japan to Germany to Ireland and across the United States - waves of employees walked off the job and into the streets Thursday to protest how the company reportedly has handled sexual misconduct allegations.

It was an unprecedented show of solidarity among the company's workers. Thousands of Google employees from more than 40 offices joined together, calling for structural changes to address what organizers of the protest called a "culture of complicity, dismissiveness, and support for perpetrators in the face of sexual harassment, misconduct, and abuse of power."

The walkouts came less than a week after The New York