Dear Sarah:

A woman, particularly a younger woman, working with or under the authority of an older man, who has more seniority at the workplace,  can easily get scared of losing her job if she displeases the older man who is pursuing her romantically/ sexually. A situation like this, in many countries, is considered a workplace sexual harassment situation.

Wikipedia in its very long entry on Sexual harassment. Under “In the workplace, it reads: “The United State’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines workplace sexual harassment as ‘unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.. when this conduct.. affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment’. Throughout the United States workplace, 79% of sexual harassment victims are women, and 21% are men.  Out of those numbers, 51% of those people were harassed by a supervisor… Women who try to deal with sexual harassment on their own, regardless of what they do, seem to be in a no-win situation.”

The entry includes information on sexual harassment in different countries around the world, including in countries in Africa and in Asia.

anita

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