A new study about workplace sexual harassment reveals some alarming findings:
“Six in ten working women have had a male colleague behave ‘inappropriately’ towards them, new research has revealed.
The study showed that women were still subjected to sexist attitudes at work with the old clichés of men slipping a hand up their skirt or patting them on the bum still a regular occurrence for some women.
While nearly a quarter of women have experienced a senior colleague making a pass at them at some point in their career.
When it came to inappropriate comments and touching more than half of the offenders were more senior members of staff and two thirds of women said the inappropriate behaviour came from a married man.
But despite saying that the behaviour of their colleagues was often degrading and embarrassing only 27 per cent reported the behaviour to someone senior.
The research polled 1,036 women and was commissioned by employment law specialists Slater & Gordon.”
Combine this with high rates of street harassment, and it’s no wonder many women feel they cannot escape sexual harassment: they may face it on their way to/from work, at work, and after hours when they’re out with friends or family.
Our country has a major sexual harassment problem!!! And people like Rush Limbaugh are one reason why — he claims sexual harassment is just human nature.
It’s time for our country to take this issue seriously. It’s no laughing matter or joke, it has real consequences on peoples’ lives.
