--- title: Eve Ensler: How to Stop Violence Against Women, #MeToo description: The Vagina Monologues playwright, Eve Ensler, discusses the progress that's been made over the last 20 years for gender equality. canonical: https://time.com/5159093/eve-ensler-men-need-to-join-the-fight-to-end-violence-against-women/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-15T20:53:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:59.352Z og:title: Eve Ensler: Men Need to Join the Fight to End Violence Against Women og:description: The Vagina Monologues playwright discusses fight for gender equality og:url: https://time.com/5159093/eve-ensler-men-need-to-join-the-fight-to-end-violence-against-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt532cd11fa87ee826/698927da8fd2ee631635aba3/eveensler.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Eve Ensler og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Eve Ensler: Men Need to Join the Fight to End Violence Against Women twitter:description: The Vagina Monologues playwright discusses fight for gender equality twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt532cd11fa87ee826/698927da8fd2ee631635aba3/eveensler.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Eve Ensler: Men Need to Join the Fight to End Violence Against Women by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Feb 15, 2018 8:53 PM UTC  by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Feb 15, 2018 8:53 PM UTC Twenty years ago, Eve Ensler launched a movement called [V-day](https://www.vday.org/) based on her play “The Vagina Monologues,” in order to fight violence against women. She recently sat down with TIME to talk about how much has changed in the last two decades. “If I look now at what’s happened in twenty years, it’s unbelievable. I mean first of all vagina is said everywhere. At least women know they have a right to protect their vaginas and stand up for their vaginas.” [#MeToo](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/) has brought new voices into the fight for gender equality. Ensler hopes that the renewed interest and focus will encourage men to join the fight, too. “Violence against women has never been our issue. We’re not raping ourselves.” She finishes: “There are very many good men out there. The problem is any violence against women, standing up for women has not become their central issue. And when it does, when they say, this will be my central issue, the world will change.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5159093/eve-ensler-men-need-to-join-the-fight-to-end-violence-against-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5159093/eve-ensler-men-need-to-join-the-fight-to-end-violence-against-women/"},"headline":"Eve Ensler: Men Need to Join the Fight to End Violence Against Women","datePublished":"2018-02-15T20:53:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:59.352Z","description":"The Vagina Monologues playwright discusses fight for gender equality","url":"https://time.com/5159093/eve-ensler-men-need-to-join-the-fight-to-end-violence-against-women/","keywords":["motto","feminism","women's rights","Valentine's Day","Theater","sexual harassment","violence against women","MeToo","'me too'"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt532cd11fa87ee826/698927da8fd2ee631635aba3/eveensler.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt532cd11fa87ee826/698927da8fd2ee631635aba3/eveensler.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Eve Ensler","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5159093/eve-ensler-men-need-to-join-the-fight-to-end-violence-against-women/","name":"Eve Ensler: Men Need to Join the Fight to End Violence Against Women"}}]}] ```