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Consider that when a woman reports harassment and says "I don't want to cause trouble," it's coming from a lifetime of not having her experiences taken seriousl
by ndespres 10y ago
Consider that when a woman reports harassment and says "I don't want to cause trouble," it's coming from a lifetime of not having her experiences taken seriously and situations like this backfiring. <i>Boys will be boys, you shouldn't be dressing like that, maybe you shouldn't have lead him on..</i> and then the woman reporting the harassment gets labeled as the troublemaker instead of the real perpetrator.
Demonstrate that you are taking her experiences seriously and behavior like that exhibited by your new employee is not acceptable. Get him out of there.
- Karunamon 10y agoit's coming from a lifetime of not having her experiences taken seriously and situations like this backfiring. Or, because corporate culture almost everywhere can be summed up with the phrase "don't rock the boat", gender notwithstanding. There's no need to prejudge every woman as a victim - certainly one you know nothing about other than a one paragraph story on HN. This is what's called benevolent sexism.
- mpweiher 10y agoThis. (Or you can just call it sexism) At one of my previous employers, we had a woman quite high up in the hierarchy (boss's boss, or maybe one more level) who regularly called on young male interns to "fix" her computer, which invariably involved them crawling underneath her desk...or asking pretty much all the inappropriate job interview questions etc. etc.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoWow. Interesting example. I wouldn't fix it while she was sitting at the desk lol...