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Rehabilitation of Workplace Sexual Harrassers
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We encourage you to listen to or read an excellent editorial by Joy of Resistance on the quick "rehabilitation" of famous and notable figures accused of sexual harrassment, a topic of special interest and relevance this week at WBAI. Joy of Resistance is an excellent feminist radio show broadcast 6pm Sunday evenings on WBAI/NY. (We also post their whole show which includes news about the Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court, and an interview with one of the founders of the first abortion clinic in New York State.)
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Transcript (w/links to articles quoted from) of editorial read by Fran Luck (who wrote it) on WBAI's Joy of Resistance on Sunday, July 15, 2018
Forty percent of women experience sexual harassment in their place of work and of those, eighty percent leave their jobs within two years because of it--an ongoing attrition rate that has a huge impact on the lives, jobs and careers of women. Women who report harassment are frequently labeled "liabilities" and blackballed within their industries--even if they are believed.
And there are other consequences: Journalist Bryce Covert in an article in The Cut last Fall, https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/sexual-harassment-affects-women-career.html
quoted one woman she interviewed as asking "Can I put some sort of asterisk on my résumé like, ‘I left because of the creepy boss who was making people uncomfortable?'" (in order to explain the gap in my work history?).
Ever since last October, when
Salsa Soul Sisters
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Tonight, 9PM, Tues., 7/3 Interview by Stahimili Mapp with Cassandra Grant about the Salsa Soul Sisters, a group of lesbian women of color founded in 1976. We'll devote the hour to it.
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In future weeks, Naomi Brussel will interview Jiji Romano, a Lebanese lesbian activist recently settled in NYC.