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Nearly 1 In 4 Men Think Expecting Sex From An Employee Is Totally OK

And we thought the gender pay gap was bad... - by Anna Clarke
  • 14 Mar 2018
Nearly 1 In 4 Men Think Expecting Sex From An Employee Is Totally OK

A new poll, commissioned by the humanitarian organisation CARE and conducted by Harris Poll, has found that almost a quarter of men (that’s 23%) believe it’s perfectly fine to ask or expect their employee to have sex with them. Sorry, what?!

The concerning stats come from a survey of 9,408 adults from across eight different countries worldwide, including the UK and the US.

Egypt topped the list where 62% of men surveyed thought it was totally OK for employers to expect ‘intimate interactions’ from their employees.

‘Being expected to have sex with your employer — that’s not a job description, it’s sexual abuse,’ said Michelle Nunn, CARE’s president and CEO.

‘And it speaks to the global epidemic of harassment and abuse in our workplaces.’ 

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Other responses from participants showed that there is still a stark gulf between what men and women consider as acceptable behaviour in the office.

According to the poll, 44% of US men aged 18-34 think it’s sometimes or always OK to tell a sexy joke at work, compared to only 22% of women in the same age group.

Another WTF statistic included 21% of 18 to 24-year-old Ecuadorians surveyed think it reasonable to smooch a colleague at the office party without their permission.

And the Brits aren’t exempt from creeping behaviour by the water cooler either because apparently 35% of 25- 34-year-olds consider it acceptable to pinch a colleague’s bum as a joke. Hmmmm.

This survey stands as another depressing reminder that a world free from sexual harassment has still yet to be achieved and the battle for women’s equality continues.

‘We still have such a long way to go in stamping out sexual harassment and abuse globally,’ Nunn said, ‘whether it’s inside office buildings in the U.S., factories in India or the often-overlooked workplaces of housekeepers and caretakers in Latin America.’

This article originally appeared on marie claire UK

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