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> I'm starting to think that I am (or we, men, are) blind to this. Nobody's blind to that. Most of the time it's just that nobody wants to get involved in case
by aikah 11y ago
> I'm starting to think that I am (or we, men, are) blind to this.
Nobody's blind to that. Most of the time it's just that nobody wants to get involved in cases like that. For all one knows ones could be accused of doing nothing about it. So people prefer "not to see" and "not to know", just like in blatant cases of racism at work. So it's not blindness , it's just individualism.
> but I'd guess Eastern-ish Europe would be worse
Why just Eastern Europe ? I'm French and sexual harassment is an endemic issue. Same in Italy. We might have stronger laws against it but good luck when it comes to proving it happened in a court of law.
- mtrimpe 11y agoIt's not really useful to single out Eastern Europe. The problem is everywhere; its manifestations are just different. Eastern Europe for example has much less of a glass ceiling problem but gender roles are stricter and but racism and homophobia are orders of magnitude worse. In the Dutch workplace (where I'm from) homophobia is for example much less of an issue; but racism is still pretty ingrained and while there are less strict divisions in gender roles but the glass ceiling for women is much stronger.