Women in leadership positions face more sexual harassment

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/su-wil011520.php

News Release 16-Jan-2020
Stockholm University

Power in the workplace does not stop women's exposure to sexual harassment. On the contrary, women with supervisory positions are harassed more than women employees. These are the results from a new study from the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University, which examined the conditions in Sweden, USA and Japan.

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In all three countries, women with supervisory positions were subject to more harassment when their subordinates consisted of mostly men.

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