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We have a culture of alcohol being involved in most team interactions outside of work. Those mostly take place in the evening, a time when, usually, private soc
by konstruktor 13y ago
We have a culture of alcohol being involved in most team interactions outside of work. Those mostly take place in the evening, a time when, usually, private socializing, including mate seeking behaviour, happens. That alone would be quite a fertile ground for sexual harassment, if you add a few females to a group mostly consisting of men. Then add companies where people work long hours and have little life outside of work. And now consider conferences, where people are away from their regular social circle for extended periods of time.
I would not want to be a young, attractive female working in this environment.
- GeorgeOrr 13y agoI really don't think it's about alcohol or about men and women working in close quarters for long hours. This is about a small number of pigs that care more about their desire than any thought of consent or mutual interest. Real men, the vast majority, would never consider inflicting this sort of evil on another. Drunk or not. It's not about sex, it's about power and abuse.
- eulerphi 13y agoThe white knight.
- beams_of_light 13y agoAgreed. Years ago, I might not have been able to sympathize with her very well, but I have daughters of my own now, and I cringe at the thoughts of things the future males in their lives will do. It's easy to see women as sex objects, but having daughters really opens your eyes to their humanity; that their hopes and dreams mean just at much as ours.
- gmjosack 13y agoIt seems strange to me that one would need to have daughters to realize women have hopes and dreams as meaningful as a man's...