A new survey indicating that over half of women and a fifth of men in Britain have experienced sexual harassment at work or a place of study highlights that the UK suffers from structural perversity and demeaning of women, says an academic in London.
“It is bad enough that half of women and a fifth of men have experienced some form of sexual harassment at work but the issue goes wider than that. There is inappropriate sexual behavior at work and in social situations. And then you get the situation separate really of serial predation, serial pedophiles like Jimmy Savile, a famous BBC producer and presenter who was preying on young people, by the way through his career, and this was tolerated,” said professor Rodney Shakespeare.
On Tuesday, a survey conducted for the BBC found that 53 percent of women and 20 percent of men in Britain have experienced sexual harassment at work or a place of study. The sexual harassment ranged from inappropriate…