>Why is this? It's because, from what I have read, a number of studies find that when women are treated inappropriately at work, they rarely speak up. That doe

>Why is this? It's because, from what I have read, a number of studies find that when women are treated inappropriately at work, they rarely speak up. That doesn't follow logically. Just because women tend not to "speak up" when they're treated badly doesn't mean women who aren't treated badly "speak up" when nothing happened. You just don't know. >As to character witnesses, the whole piece is an argument as to why they are not very relevant. Yes, and not a very good one. When you get into a he said/she said situation character witnesses are usually all you have to go on.