Time Magazine on Wednesday named “The Silence Breakers” as its 2017 person of the year, referring to the many individuals who helped expose the prevalence of sexual harassment in the world of entertainment, technology, the media and other sectors this year. “The galvanizing actions of the women on our cover…along with those of hundreds of others, and of many men as well, have unleashed one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s,” Time’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said in a statement. The magazine’s cover photo includes actress Ashley Judd, one of the first women to go public with allegations of abuse by producer Harvey Weinstein; Taylor Swift, who spoke to the magazine for the first time since winning a groping lawsuit against DJ David Mueller; and former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, who went public with allegations that women are discriminated against at the ride-sharing company, leading to the departure of a number of executives, including former chief executive Travis Kalanick.
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