Over 20 years ago, we began to get mandated training regarding sexual harrassment and discrimination in the workplace.
This has since become commonplace..We even get this directly in the context of law-enforcement training, since female police officers experience these problems as well.
You'd have perhaps thought that the widespread dissemination of such training (and laws, and huge lawsuits, etc.) would have largely caused reductions in this behavior by now.
I just listened to a segment on NPR's The Takeaway on a large class-action lawsuit filed by female employees of Sterling Jewelers, the corporate entity that has many jeweler-subsidiaries including the much-advertised Kay Jewelry chain.
Evidently the same old same old, still going on unabated. Everything from, at the lowest level... "Wear shorter skirts, you'll sell more jewelry." To week-long corporate retreats (no spouses allowed) where the largely-female sales staff is "exposed" to the almost-exclusively-male corporate staff who look upon these gatherings as feeding grounds.
Plenty of "pay for play" activity. Want that raise? Want to transfer to another city along with your husband? Well, honey.....
And of course the usual sexual jokes, harrassment, and the like that creates a "hostile workplace".
So what I wonder is.... Is this just embedded in society and human nature? My wife reported things like this occuring at her large, corporate (Bell Telephone) workplace when she was in her 20s..... 45 years ago.
Seems like Sterling is in for a rather large corporate payout... And if things run true to form the management staff will all be subjected to mandated training sessions....
And then I wonder how long before the same pattern repeats. Rather depressing.
This has since become commonplace..We even get this directly in the context of law-enforcement training, since female police officers experience these problems as well.
You'd have perhaps thought that the widespread dissemination of such training (and laws, and huge lawsuits, etc.) would have largely caused reductions in this behavior by now.
I just listened to a segment on NPR's The Takeaway on a large class-action lawsuit filed by female employees of Sterling Jewelers, the corporate entity that has many jeweler-subsidiaries including the much-advertised Kay Jewelry chain.
Evidently the same old same old, still going on unabated. Everything from, at the lowest level... "Wear shorter skirts, you'll sell more jewelry." To week-long corporate retreats (no spouses allowed) where the largely-female sales staff is "exposed" to the almost-exclusively-male corporate staff who look upon these gatherings as feeding grounds.
Plenty of "pay for play" activity. Want that raise? Want to transfer to another city along with your husband? Well, honey.....
And of course the usual sexual jokes, harrassment, and the like that creates a "hostile workplace".
So what I wonder is.... Is this just embedded in society and human nature? My wife reported things like this occuring at her large, corporate (Bell Telephone) workplace when she was in her 20s..... 45 years ago.
Seems like Sterling is in for a rather large corporate payout... And if things run true to form the management staff will all be subjected to mandated training sessions....
And then I wonder how long before the same pattern repeats. Rather depressing.
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