Harassment: The ripple effect
Increasing numbers of people are coming forward to complain of sexual harassment in the workplace. And in many cases, one person’s jokey banter is another person’s unwanted advance
It is almost two months since the first allegations of sexual harassment against the US film tycoon Harvey Weinstein emerged. Since then, thousands of people, from movie stars to ordinary individuals, have come forth to talk about their experiences. Many of them have instigated legal action, sparked off internal workplace investigations or published their experiences online.
The reverberations of Weinstein’s fall had a knock-on effect in this country, where Michael Colgan, the former ...
