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  1. Experts say further action needed to protect female apprentices from sexual harassment

    Standing in a stainless-steel boning room, working through a bucket of slimy chicken carcasses, Kirsten Drinkwater wouldn’t want…
    #Australia #apprenticeships #AU #Austrlia #RaeCooper #SarojniChoi #sexdiscrimination #sexualharrasment #WideBay
    europesays.com/australia/58927/

  2. Another weekend, another story of #sexism... sometimes its hard to believe this is 2024.

    Now, in a sector that saw 'blind auditions' (with players behind curtains) do much to reduce sexism in #orchestras hiring practice, it seems that #female pianists are still facing discrimination(s) across the world of #classicalmusic.

    So, despite seeming like a more 'civilised' area of the #musicindustry, what we still see are unacceptable discrimination & #sexualharrasment.

    theguardian.com/music/2024/feb

  3. न्याय दिलाने के लिए कुर्सी पर बैठी महिला जज खुद ही यौन उत्पीड़न की हुई शिकार, सीजेआई को खुला पत्र लिखकर मांगी इच्छा मृत्यु
    #CJI #CJIChandrachud #Banda #Women #Harrasmnt #ArpitaSahu #euthanasia #UttarPradesh #AllahabadHighCourt #SexualHarrasment #dwsamacha

    dwsamachar.com/2023/12/15/band

  4. French police have arrested several former Ubisoft executives, including Serge Hascoët and Tommy François, in connection with an investigation into sexual harassment allegations at the game publisher. The investigation, which began at least three years ago, led to these arrests after two victims and the Solidaires Informatique union filed complaints. Hascoët and François resigned from Ubisoft in 2020 amid allegations of sexual misconduct. A lawyer for the plaintiffs highlighted the complicity of the company's white-collar workers in the alleged harassment. Ubisoft responded by stating it had no knowledge of the reported developments.

    Source: Neowin

    #Ubisoft #Gaming #AssasinsCreed #SexualHarrasment #Sexism #France #Tech #TechBites

  5. Reading Rudy Colludy ‘s transcripts in the sexual harassment viagra lawsuit is gross . Those are my tits is the lesser objectionable comments he made to his alleged victim.
    #tits #guiliani #metoo #sexualharrasment

    iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nysce

  6. California State University campuses mishandled sexual harassment allegations, audit finds - I admire the California State University system on the whole, but as this audit reveals, it can and must do better dealing with allegations of #SexualHarrasment apnews.com/article/california-

  7. @courtcan
    #NotAllMen #SexualHarrasment

    During the #Meto era, I saw a comment from some guy who couldn't understand why all men were being blamed when only a 1000 or so men did this sort of thing. So I wrote about it here. Pay attention especially to the poll.

    dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/2

  8. You'll be unsurprised that #sexualharrasment in the #workplace remains unabated... the latest figures make grim reading, as does the fact that so many #females feel they cannot report it to managers as they will either be not believed or their careers will be harmed.... this is the mood music of #toxicmasculinity - we should & can do better than this, but will we?

    theguardian.com/world/2023/may

  9. Another ripple from #MeToo

    Tomorrow the UK Legal Services Board (an independent regulator) is launching an inquiry into the inclusion of #NDAs (gagging clauses) in legal settlements to assess whether voluntary undertakings to stop misuse of NDAs in areas from #University complaints to #sexualharrasment have made any inroads into stopping their misuse.

    After revelations about NDAs' role in aspects of various #MeToo related cases, we've all become more aware of their dangerous effect(s)

  10. Not only has the Govt. not come up with its own #sexualharrasment bill (the one navigating the HoC/HoL is a private members' bill), it now seems that a concerted campaign of amendments from #Tory peers will ensure even this bill falls by the way side as its unlikely to have time allocated to it when it returns to the HoC to discuss the amendments.

    If #RishiSunak & the #Tories were really serious about responding to #MeToo then they'd be adopting this bill & allocating it time, but they won't!

  11. Boxing Ontario's national affiliate, #BoxingCanada came under scrutiny in 2022 after more than 120 #athletes , #coaches & #officials signed an #Open Letter calling on the #CanadianGovernment to address a " #ToxicCulture of #fear and #silence " within the umbrella organization.     
    Officials with #BoxingOntario declined requests for an interview about "any matters which may be proceeding through our #DisciplinaryProcess ."

    cbc.ca/amp/1.6754967

    #SexualHarrasment #WomenInSports #Boxing

  12. Fucking love this. I can’t even begin to count how many times #conservatives have said shit like this. Specially for speaking out against #sexualharrasment #werewolves

  13. Sexual Harassment In Educational Institutes And A Possible Solution

    Sexual Harassment In Educational Institutes And A Possible Solution

    By Ali Hassnain

    All over the world men and women have harboured dark secrets about sexual harassment. Pakistan is no exception. Recently some allegations in the prestigious Lahore Grammar School for Girls (LGS) came to light. It has surprised me that in this day and age why it took so long? The abuse is not limited to one school in private or public sector. Men and women have used their real or assumed position of influence to misuse same or opposite gender. For the sake of this article I will not focus on religious schools. This is another horrible chapter for all religions.

    Montesquieu had a theory that power is too important to be trusted into one man or one body of people. It is as relevant in politics as well in educational institutions. All the teachers I personally have been mentored by in my life were very good people. However to be fair, they were not taught by the institutions how to tackle basic bullying let alone spot sexual harassment. They probably used their own instincts and knowledge.

    The culture of educational institutions is horrible at best. And I am talking of the top institutions in the country. God alone knows horrors of the public sector underfunded and ignored institutions. However every other month the press is full of one or more of such horrible stories. Courts of law are full of runaways and lawyers fight it out to prove the age of bride, which is mostly absurd. Overwhelming (well over 95%) of reported rape cases where accused is punished are ones where girl elopes and later under the pressure of family tells the court it was by force. The laws are absurd, out dated and their execution is even worse.

    Even in 21st century the Pakistani legal system is yet to sentence a female rapist. There is no data available but to the best of my knowledge there has never been an FIR registered where a female has been accused of rape or even sexual harassment.

    That said, the standards are different for most expensive schools and colleges which are often affiliated with institutions in the west and offer their courses based on their guidelines. They are stuck between the western concepts and the South Asian execution. None of the highly paid institutions have trained psychologists, counsellors nor seminars or guidelines for students or faculty to address the subject of sexual harassment.

    Even in the west the situation is appalling; the #MeToo movement is just beginning. It is difficult to explain the ideas of undue influence, psychological coercion and exploiting underage girls by being in a better social standing. Parents or teachers are not expected to have “the talk”, nor do schools monitor the atmosphere in general.

    One of the funniest concepts here in Pakistan is the concept of “dating”. Here often the acts forbidden by culture are called dating. This concept of dating is seriously lost in the East. If one is to follow the Western concept of date, I think the Islamic concept is of chaperone dating approved by parents, which is also alien to us. It is strange that the standard of chastity for many here is that the person did not date in academic life; it means many basics of our educational system are flawed beyond repair.

    Let’s not even bring professional colleges into discussion; the culture there is beyond ridiculous, it can perhaps be defined as expectations of Hollywood and Lollywood infused reality. A lot like the aerobic dance style of Govinda as superman in an Indian film from the 1990s. Dreams turned into nightmares.

    In such a situation where sincere teachers are content on saving their own face from it all, and a rogue person or persons with compromised morals with no relevant proactive or even reactive forum to report them, God have mercy on children because schools won’t. Another trick from the playbook is to make a horrible example of one to scare others, which as well is very tricky and would probably not have a desired result.

    To make matters worse, a recent precedent sent after a #MeToo issue between two popular media persons of Pakistan has set a horrible example. I am making no assumption of guilt or innocence, which is between the accused, law and God.

    However the whole point of #MeToo movement was not that people would be brought to justice. Even Harvey Weinstein is not behind bars or on the run. It was to change the culture, so what happened in the issue between media persons in Pakistan was that the guy went to court and demanded that the claim be proved in court. Even with the perfect victim and a good legal system, sentence in such situations is very hard to get. The guy as expected was given a clean chit. I can’t comment on his guilt or innocence, that’s not my place, nor do I have facts or evidence. But if this script is to be followed, the #MeToo movement in Pakistan is doomed, for better or worse. However in the case of LGS there were complaints made at the time which were ignored.

    I perfectly understand there would be some cases of complaints where mala fide is involved. However anyone who has been in the Pakistan’s educational system knows females get more attention and better grades and sometimes eyes of the male teachers say it all. However I am mentioning a few only; I don’t talk of overwhelming majority of selfless teachers who stop such activities on their own without any training or instructions.

    So what is to be done? Are we going to use our legal system and put children and teachers in court for inappropriate touch, sexting or harassment short of rape? Surely most parents would not want that and the result might not be so great either. The purpose is to protect children, not put them in what they may see as more trouble. What solution do we find in our current system? An easy start, perhaps.

    I think there is at least some room. There is an institution called Wafaqi Mohtasib (Ombudsman) which has many branches including one which addresses workplace harassment. Complaint there is free, no lawyer is mandatory and proceedings are way less formal and in private and punishments don’t fall under Hudood or penal code. It basically deals with grievances between people and state institutions. It’s called Mohtasib in Urdu and is an Islamic concept.

    I suggest that an institution under federal Ombudsman is created for tackling harassment and other issues (e.g. bullying) in schools. A frame work and guidelines can be given to schools to investigate such matters and the ombudsman and can foresee and act either suo moto or on complaints. Rules can be made where complainant would not be penalized and at the least would be protected from further possible harassment through a directive or whatever appropriate measure is decided. That forum can oversee general atmosphere of private and government sector schools, and also the religious schools which are the most complicated of them all.

     

    #Education #LGS #Pakistan #sexualHarrasment
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