https://leftfootforward.org/2016/08/nearly-two-thirds-of-young-women-have-been-sexually-harassed-at-work/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:53:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://leftfootforward.org/2016/08/nearly-two-thirds-of-young-women-have-been-sexually-harassed-at-work/#comment-815162 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:53:49 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=114302#comment-815162 Hoping that the comment from CR is a joke, though if it is, it’s not sufficiently clear that it is one, nor is it that funny. Women’s experience and treatment in the workplace is absolutely bound up with the broader crises of inequality, injustice, lack of access to justice, lack of representation and lack of a safe space in which to exercise their voice. Sexual harassment is not a separate issue to those of TU representation and class inequality; it is an issue that is directly related to them, as this piece makes clear; the report is a joint one by the TUC and Everyday Sexism. Class inequality also most certainly has gendered aspects. It’s interesting to note that CR’s framing of class inequality and TU representation as “real” issues and his/her trivialisation of the subject in question as “politically correct nonsense” demonstrates the very silencing and dismissal of women’s harassment that this research seeks to highlight. If anything, it shows how urgently needed discussions of the latter truly are.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2016/08/nearly-two-thirds-of-young-women-have-been-sexually-harassed-at-work/#comment-815016 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:16:40 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=114302#comment-815016 Lets deal with the real issues of class inequality and lack of Trade Union representation in the workplaces of Britian and not get side tracked on to silly politically correct nonsense like this.

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