Set a new marker

I didn't manage to understand what it means to set a new marker. Any directions will be apperciated in order to understand. (Either I understand to what they reffered with "that era"...)

(Video 0:22) We have more that connects us than divides us. sexual harassment is not about sex it's about power. Women can have a voice in their workplace and have respect on their job. We said to the industry: look, you cannot continue to allow us to work in an environment that was set up to be sexualized. We do need to denounce that era and set a new marker here. When the president is allowing this to go on we are unsafe.