Posts tagged Sexual Harassment.

I heard a story recently where a (very well intentioned) individual said he felt compelled to speak up about sexual harassment he witnessed at work because he had a daughter. He felt that by coming forward in this situation involving a female coworker, he was taking a step so his daughter would have a better future.

Following his conviction on February 25, 2020, for first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape in a Manhattan courtroom, disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison: 20 years for forcible oral sex and three years for rape. Justice James A. Burke, who presided over the trial, could have sentenced Weinstein to a minimum of five ...

January was a pretty good month, in more ways than one.

Carly Fiorina recently gave her spot-on take concerning the barrage of harassment "revelations" against powerful and admired men in her post, "It's Time to Man Up" on Media.com. Here are a few potent excerpts:

Women are not shocked because we all have been living with this for a very long time. I came up in the men’s worlds of technology and communications. But regardless of industry, virtually every woman I know — myself included — has been perennially, and at best, merely harassed and propositioned, diminished and ignored; not as frequently, but too often and at worst, too many I have known have been sexually abused. Virtually all of us have been groped by someone we thought we could trust.

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