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Ladies, if you think your job is bad, be thankful that you don't work in Russia. A recent survey of female professionals in that country finds that 100% of them have been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses. That is not a typo - One Hundred Percent. 32 percent say they have had intercourse with the boss at least once and another 7 percent say they have been raped on the job.
Sexual harassment is so prevalent there that it often begins before a woman even gets a job. University students say it is not uncommon for females to perform sexual favors in return for high marks and job-seekers report they are often forced to have sex during job interviews.
If you wonder how this can be, look no further than the comments of a judge, who recently dismissed yet another sexual harassment case. Despite a 22-year-old executive's allegations that she had been locked out of her office for refusing to have sex with her boss, the judge threw the case out. It isn't that he didn't believe her. It's that he thinks this type of behavior is necessary to ensure that humans continue to breed. "If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.
This outrageous abuse isn't limited to the workplace, either. According to human rights activists, Russian women suffer from some of the highest levels of domestic abuse in the world. I don't know about you, but I had no idea that Russian women had it so bad. I find the whole thing disgusting and it certainly puts my workplace complaints into perspective.
Sexual harassment is so prevalent there that it often begins before a woman even gets a job. University students say it is not uncommon for females to perform sexual favors in return for high marks and job-seekers report they are often forced to have sex during job interviews.
If you wonder how this can be, look no further than the comments of a judge, who recently dismissed yet another sexual harassment case. Despite a 22-year-old executive's allegations that she had been locked out of her office for refusing to have sex with her boss, the judge threw the case out. It isn't that he didn't believe her. It's that he thinks this type of behavior is necessary to ensure that humans continue to breed. "If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.
This outrageous abuse isn't limited to the workplace, either. According to human rights activists, Russian women suffer from some of the highest levels of domestic abuse in the world. I don't know about you, but I had no idea that Russian women had it so bad. I find the whole thing disgusting and it certainly puts my workplace complaints into perspective.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
8-02-2008 @ 12:18PM
drb said...You have to be kidding, there is as much sexual harrassment in America. Women in factories are harrassed by their bosses and scared to report it because the company will eventually fire her or lay her off, I see this all the time. When a woman does report it, management works around the problem because it could possibly involve them now or down the road. But hey who cares about factory working women anyway, this is not Russia,,lol.
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8-02-2008 @ 4:58PM
Kellie said...DRB, there is NOT as much sexual harassment in the US. We do not have a 100% sexual harassment rate. No one is saying it doesn't happen in the instances you are talking about or even in thousands of other jobs, but it's not 100%.
My jaw dropped and my blood began to boil when I read this. Especially that part about the judge. I wish there was something I could do to change that.
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8-02-2008 @ 6:06PM
Karenjean said...Big deal. Sexual harrassment is all over the place here, too.
On my first job interview, I lost out to a girl who admitted she did not have any qualifications for the job. She DID have giant boobs and giggled them and lifted up her skirt when the boss came out. He blew through my interview in five minutes so he could get to her. He offered me a job to be her assistant because she couldn't handle the workload. It paid half the salary and I ended up doing all the work while she hung out in his office and they went on 3 hour lunches.
That was in 1983. I now have a decent job but guess what? We have a clerk in our department and I have to do all of her work in addition to my own while she loafs and leaves early. Why? If you open her mouth, you'll find our boss' peepee.
So I have spent my entire working career doing my own work plus the work of the woman who was sleeping with the boss.
Oh, and guess which one of us always gets the big raises?
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