Well, well well, Law firm Peninusla (link) produced a survey about sexual harassment at work by women on men.
According to their figures, four out of five men have suffered sexual harassment at work and 85% of employers admit they take claims of sexual harrassment made by a men less seriously than if made by a women. Links to the story are here (Telegraph, Daily Mail).
David Price of Peninsula said "The majority of men don't feel gender discrimination applies to them, and tend to just accept it. Male employees should not feel they can't report incidents to their employer."
David also debated this issue across the media (go to press section of their web-site).
It now seems month by month, the one sided myths of the feminist fundamentalists are being shattered. The one-sided debate over education, domestic abuse, cancer, the gender pay gap and now this are being challenged.
Those fundamentalists who only run campaigns about men harassing women at work are anti-men, that is what drives them, they can no longer ignore the facts.
If anyone sees campaigns in their workplace that are only aimed at men harassing women, they should challenge those (normally female dominated HR departments) who put them up.
Happy for anyone who sees such campaigns to contact this site.
Well done on spotting this. Even where there are "neutral" posters one knows that men's views aren't taken seriously
Posted by: Nigel | Thursday, 10 July 2008 at 21:55
Great post. But if the genders were reversed, with the SAME stats, I suspect this would be treated as a national epidemic and we would be hearing calls from government officials (we know which ones)to launch investigations and to take appropriate measures to stomp out such harassment.
In addition, since employers don't take such harassment as seriously as male-on-female harassment, doesn't this tell men to shut up and just put up with it? Shouldn't the employers be educated about this better?
Posted by: FalseRapeArchivist | Monday, 14 July 2008 at 18:59