American laws and values are structured to accept sexual harassment of women, and bullying in the work place and in schools in general. It is too easy for aggressive men, even aggressive women, in positions of power, to harass lower level people in work or school / college.
"Sexual harassment at work: more than half of claims in US result in no charge"
Roger Ailes case underscores a pervasive global problem in the workplace – but Mona Chalabi breaks down the data in America
22 July 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/22/sexual-harassment-at-work-roger-ailes-fox-news
July 2016 Fox fired a sex harasser, and no doubt paid him millions of dollars.
Sex harassment is a crime that powerful people walk away from too easily, too often, just by using their power and their money. THAT IS NOT JUSTICE!
Roger Ailes was forced out this week following sexual harassment accusations from more than 20 women who the former Fox chairman encountered over decades.
Discrimination at work
Sexual harassment at work: more than half of claims in US result in no charge
Roger Ailes case underscores a pervasive global problem in the workplace – but Mona Chalabi breaks down the data in America
Friday 22 July 2016 12.30 EDT Last modified on Thursday 6 April 2017 10.41 EDT
Roger Ailes’ departure from Fox News this week has once again put a spotlight on sexual harassment in the workplace. Since a lawsuit was filed accusing Ailes of sexual harassment, more than 20 women have come forward (almost all had experienced it firsthand, but some reached out to lawyers as witnesses).
The issue is a global one. For example, according to the United Nations, “between 40 and 50% of women in European Union countries experience unwanted sexual advancements, physical contact or other forms of sexual harassment at their workplace”.
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In America, the best way to understand the prevalence of sexual harassment is to examine data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which are based on events that happen every day in workplaces across the country. Here are some of its findings.
Over half of sexual harassment claims result in no charge
More than half of the allegations of sexual harassment made to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2015 have resulted in no charge. The statistics, which span the past six years, show a consistent pattern in which claimants are unsuccessful.
In 2015, the EEOC was asked to investigate 6,822 sexual harassment allegations. Of the cases that were settled last year, the EEOC dismissed 52% since it had “no reasonable cause to believe that discrimination occurred”. A further 25% had a result for the claimant that was deemed positive. These “favorable” outcomes include negotiated settlements, withdrawals of claims but with benefits, successful conciliations and unsuccessful conciliations (the last category means “reasonable cause” was established but there was no conciliation). The remaining 23% of sexual harassment legal claims were simply closed for administrative reasons."
"75% of people who experience sexual harassment do not report it"
"Anita Hill on O'Reilly harassment charges: People need to keep coming forward"
Jessica Guynn , USA TODAY Published 7:44 p.m. ET April 19, 2017 | Updated 2:22 p.m. ET April 20, 2017
"SAN FRANCISCO — A quarter century after her testimony in Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill says it's time for a nation that's too easily accepting of men's excuses for sexual harassment to change the cultural status quo.
Take Donald Trump being elected president after a tape revealed his boasts of forcing himself on women. Or top-rated cable news host Bill O'Reilly, who was ousted Thursday after the report of multiple settlements involving sexual harassment allegations against him. Trump dismissed talk of grabbing women by their sexual organs as locker room banter, and O'Reilly called the claims against him "completely unfounded."
"We have a whole host of people accepting that as just something men do as opposed to understanding it as predatory behavior that is not only immoral but is also illegal," Hill told USA TODAY in a rare interview."
Go ahead boys and men, say whatever sexual thing that comes to mind you want to the girls and women you want to kiss, touch, and have sex with. It is just being male, right?
Half of America voted for Tweety Twump, so what is their statement about misogyny? They have no problem with it! It follows that harassment at the work place, even in schools, is accepted.
"SAN FRANCISCO — A quarter century after her testimony in Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill says it's time for a nation that's too easily accepting of men's excuses for sexual harassment to change the cultural status quo.
Take Donald Trump being elected president after a tape revealed his boasts of forcing himself on women. Or top-rated cable news host Bill O'Reilly, who was ousted Thursday after the report of multiple settlements involving sexual harassment allegations against him. Trump dismissed talk of grabbing women by their sexual organs as locker room banter, and O'Reilly called the claims against him "completely unfounded."
"We have a whole host of people accepting that as just something men do as opposed to understanding it as predatory behavior that is not only immoral but is also illegal," Hill told USA TODAY in a rare interview."
Empty words from our Government, the "EEOC." Here is the law.
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm
"Sexual Harassment
It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person’s sex. Harassment can include “sexual harassment” or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.
Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex.
Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer."
Enforcement is not just weak, it is absent. It is hard to enforce because Americans do not understand it.
