The unnamed executive, a 22-year-old from St Petersburg, had been hoping to become only the third woman in Russia's history to bring a successful sexual harassment action against a male employer. She alleged she had been locked out of her office after she refused to have intimate relations with her 47-year-old boss.
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The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally. "If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.
Since Soviet times, sexual harassment in Russia has become an accepted part of life in the office, work place and university lecture room. According to a recent survey, 100 per cent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses, 32 per cent said they had had intercourse with them at least once and another seven per cent claimed to have been raped.
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This has got to be one of the dumbest and most misogynistic judges of our times. It's like saying that without theft and extortion, there can be no economic growth. The disheartening harrassment and rape rates are also not surprising; Russia is still fairly lawless on the level of human rights, misogynistic socially, and economically backward so that women have few options but to surrender to lusty male superiors in order to secure their livelihood. Given stats like that and men like him, no wonder Russia has a low birth rate (both due to abortion and birth control); what women would ever want to carry his child?
WTF is all I can say.
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ReplyDeleteMy question is : how to escape ?
ReplyDeleteNo wonder there are so many Russians who want to come over here, they said their government sucks, and they wanted lives like "everybody else."
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