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"In our new study, published on Tuesday, we surveyed 701 migrant and refugee
women in Australia and found nearly half had experienced sexual harassment in
the workplace over the past five years.
This harassment was overwhelmingly perpetrated by men in senior positions, or
men who were clients and customers.
These women most often experienced workplace sexual harassment when they were
in insecure employment, in temporary, casual or contract positions.
We asked the women in our study what they perceived was the motivation for the
harassment: they consistently identified sex and gender as a key motivation, as
well as race and religion.
It was very rare for participants to have reported sexual harassment in the
workplace to a formal authority. It was most common for these women to disclose
the experience to friends and family, or informally to someone at work.
The primary reason for respondents not reporting was because they “felt
responsible”. Other reasons were uncertainty about where to go, and fears about
what reporting would mean for their job security."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
