It's a topic that has been at the forefront of the film industry since 2017, however, Priyanka Chopra says sexual harassment in Hollywood has been somewhat quelled thanks to women banding together.
The Quantico actress was speaking at the Women in the World Summit in New York on Thursday, where she was interviewed by event founder Tina Brown.
"Sexual harassment had become a norm with women," said Chopra, 36, when quizzed on the impact of the #MeToo movement. "Now, because of the support we are giving each other, people don't have the power to shut us down."
The Bollywood star added that a renewed strength in numbers had contributed to such empowerment, saying: "We always had a voice. Just nobody heard us. Now if I have a story I don't feel I'm alone any more – and I'm not ashamed of it."
Chopra, who spoke about her activism as well as entrepreneurship on stage, also opened up about her relationship with new husband Nick Jonas, revealing she didn't hear wedding bells when the two first met.
“I’ve known him for two years. I didn’t think that this is what it [would’ve] turned out to be, and that’s maybe that’s my fault, I judged a book by its cover,” she said. “When I actually started dating Nick, he surprised me so much.”
The couple tied the knot in a lavish, multi-day affair in Mumbai in December, with Chopra joking that the bill for their nuptials did take her by surprise.
"We were like, ‘Cool cool, maybe we should have prepared this a little bit more'," she told Brown.
Chopra also revealed how pop star Jonas's temperament complements her own, saying: “He’s such an old soul, extremely smart, so good for me because he grounds me so much. I’m a wild child, I do whatever I want whenever I want and he always supports me.”
The summit, which this year celebrated its 10th anniversary, brought together female leaders and thinkers from across the world to share and celebrate their stories.
Vogue editor Anna Wintour, Captain Marvel actress Brie Larson, model Adwoa Aboah and politician Stacey Abrams were among the summit's line-up, as well as media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who delivered the keynote address.
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Will the pound fall to parity with the dollar?
The idea of pound parity now seems less far-fetched as the risk grows that Britain may split away from the European Union without a deal.
Rupert Harrison, a fund manager at BlackRock, sees the risk of it falling to trade level with the dollar on a no-deal Brexit. The view echoes Morgan Stanley’s recent forecast that the currency can plunge toward $1 (Dh3.67) on such an outcome. That isn’t the majority view yet – a Bloomberg survey this month estimated the pound will slide to $1.10 should the UK exit the bloc without an agreement.
New Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said that Britain will leave the EU on the October 31 deadline with or without an agreement, fuelling concern the nation is headed for a disorderly departure and fanning pessimism toward the pound. Sterling has fallen more than 7 per cent in the past three months, the worst performance among major developed-market currencies.
“The pound is at a much lower level now but I still think a no-deal exit would lead to significant volatility and we could be testing parity on a really bad outcome,” said Mr Harrison, who manages more than $10 billion in assets at BlackRock. “We will see this game of chicken continue through August and that’s likely negative for sterling,” he said about the deadlocked Brexit talks.
The pound fell 0.8 per cent to $1.2033 on Friday, its weakest closing level since the 1980s, after a report on the second quarter showed the UK economy shrank for the first time in six years. The data means it is likely the Bank of England will cut interest rates, according to Mizuho Bank.
The BOE said in November that the currency could fall even below $1 in an analysis on possible worst-case Brexit scenarios. Options-based calculations showed around a 6.4 per cent chance of pound-dollar parity in the next one year, markedly higher than 0.2 per cent in early March when prospects of a no-deal outcome were seemingly off the table.
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