Cover Story
- Insurance firms are offering policies that cover sexual harassment claims.
- Your response will depend on which gender you belong to. But you don't need a column to tell you that women are not as safe as you would like them to be in the workplace.
- Organisations need to keep reminding everyone at work, including the top brass, that the office and the bedroom are distinct - and those who attempt to make the twain meet will pay the price.
- Ads, soaps and reality shows claim to give people what they want, but they also give them what they - and certainly workplaces - don't want.
- While women are capable of dealing with this by themselves, there is an even more formidable problem they face: Lack of an adequate legal remedy
- Ambition can come at a cost, and it is invariably the woman in the workplace who pays the price.
From the Editor
Sexual harassment can be crude and overt or very subtle, but you know you are being sexually harassed when you experience it. Free as a bird
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