Reuters, London :
More than half of British women have been sexually harassed at work, according to a survey published on Wednesday, but almost 80 percent said they did not report the incident to their employer.
Nearly one in five respondents said the perpetrator was their direct supervisor, and around a quarter said they felt they would not be taken seriously or believed if they reported the harassment.
Young women between 18 and 24 fared worse than other age groups, with two-thirds experiencing workplace sexual harassment, according to the report by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and women’s rights group Everyday Sexism.
“The numbers are shocking and it should be a wake up-call,” Alice Hood, head of equality at TUC told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Sexual harassment is still a really big problem for women in the workplace. It’s certainly not gone away.”
She said many women did not report the incident because they were embarrassed, thought they would not be taken seriously, or feared it would damage career prospects.
More than half of British women have been sexually harassed at work, according to a survey published on Wednesday, but almost 80 percent said they did not report the incident to their employer.
Nearly one in five respondents said the perpetrator was their direct supervisor, and around a quarter said they felt they would not be taken seriously or believed if they reported the harassment.
Young women between 18 and 24 fared worse than other age groups, with two-thirds experiencing workplace sexual harassment, according to the report by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and women’s rights group Everyday Sexism.
“The numbers are shocking and it should be a wake up-call,” Alice Hood, head of equality at TUC told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Sexual harassment is still a really big problem for women in the workplace. It’s certainly not gone away.”
She said many women did not report the incident because they were embarrassed, thought they would not be taken seriously, or feared it would damage career prospects.
