A Russian Judge Ensures the Future Propagation of the Species By Promoting Sexual Harassment
By Nicholle Manners - Aug 11th, 2008 at 2:49 pmA female advertising executive lost a sexual harassment suit against her male boss… for the good of mankind.
In a largely overlooked news piece, the Telegraph reported that a 22-year-old Russian woman alleged that she was locked out of her office after spurning her boss’s advances. The presiding judge dismissed her case–not for a lack of evidence, but because, as he put it, “If we had no sexual harassment, we would have no children.”
Were it not for such compelling logic, this woman might have been the third in Russian history to win a sexual harassment case against a male employer. The article details a pervasive culture of misogyny that spans from Russia’s classrooms to its boardrooms:
According to a recent survey, 100 per cent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses, 32 per cent said they had had intercourse with them at least once and another seven per cent claimed to have been raped.
Eighty per cent of those who participated in the survey said they did not believe it possible to win promotion without engaging in sexual relations with their male superiors.
But hey, whatever keeps the species going, right?
How can we create a global feminist movement? While some countries have means to combat these types of abuses, we need to work together and make the movement go global. This isn’t the post-feminist era - this is the time when we can make change on a greater, global scale.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:33 pm