Yeah, it's only Fox employees who are accused of sexual harassment.
A Swedish journalist reported that she was sexually harassed numerous times in her office by her supervisor and co-workers, who engaged in “touching, hugs, hello kisses too close to the mouth, nibbling! Comments on my dress, my shoes, my makeup, the way I walked and my body. Comments on whether I was pregnant or not. Requests to take pictures of me in a bikini. Downloading porn on the field computer that we all used. Degrading jokes about women.”
The same journalist reported experiencing “grunting when I was looking especially “delectable” and “comments on my sex life.”
One British journalist described a range of incidents spanning several decades, beginning with an incident where she was called to an office as a young journalist and told it was because senior management wanted to gang rape her.
She said she was “sexually threatened (in my mid-twenties), sexually assaulted by my boss, demeaned, diminished, compared unfavorably to young male colleagues, offered an abortion when disclosing I was pregnant (in my early thirties). Told on resigning (in my mid-forties) that my boss “never really believed that the mothers of children should be at work in the evenings.”
The word “ongoing” was used several times by respondents to describe the harassment they faced. Another British journalist said she had been subjected to sexual harassment “most of my life,” adding “now I am over 40 it is a blessed relief to be ignored for my looks and respected for my work.”
A Tunisian reporter said that after being harassed she “even didn’t trust policemen or authorities who could accuse me instead of men harassing me.”
Others said they were implicitly or explicitly discouraged from reporting harassment, as with a crime reporter who was repeatedly harassed by a police officer. When she approached her editor about the officer’s behavior, she was told “he does that to everyone” and urged to ignore it.
Several respondents noted a climate of impunity toward sexual harassment, where those being harassed are ignored. A Russian journalist said that sexual harassment in newsrooms is “familiar and considered normal. Only rape and causing serious bodily harm are considered an occasion to refer to the authorities.”
Some said their organizations had insufficient internal mechanisms for handling sexual harassment reporting. They noted a hierarchical newsroom structure in which the bosses and editors who were perpetrating the harassment were those to whom one would report an incident.
A correspondent from India said, “I didn’t know who I could complain to. We didn’t have HR or any kind of grievance redress system.”
Similarly, a Canadian journalist working overseas wrote: “There was no official or authority to whom I could report. My employer, on another continent was not in a position to do anything about it.”
Some consequences included escalated harassment or job loss, as with an Australian respondent who reported harassment to her station manager, and was told “if I couldn’t stand the heat, I should get out of the kitchen.” She was soon fired and sent a harassing letter by the same manager.
Those who did report sexual harassment were asked “what was the outcome” Responses indicated mostly negative effects, from being disregarded to losing assignments or, in a few cases, being fired.
Other respondents said they faced similar experiences and were discouraged from talking about the harassment by supervisors, colleagues and in some cases union representatives.
Several said they were told to “grow up” or “forget it.”
Another said her editor was sensitive to her complaints, but ultimately “advised me to reject or ignore inappropriate behavior by the harasser” because “making a formal complaint could have endangered my news outlet’s access to the agency.”
Harassment by powerful sources was cited in several other examples, including a journalist in Zimbabwe who said “my boss persuaded me not to complain. Against my better judgment, I dropped it and now wonder how many other women that man went on to harass.”
A few respondents said they were taken off beats or reassigned when they complained of sexual harassment. One journalist in India said reporting harassment “only made sure you were never given plum assignments. One is expected to take it as an inevitable part of the job.”
Some respondents said they experienced positive outcomes when reporting sexual harassment. When harassment took place at work, a few women said the perpetrators were “verbally warned,” censured or fired. Others noted a lack of official response but said their colleagues were supportive.
When asked “how did your experience of being sexually harassed affect you?” many respondents said the harassment had psychological consequences.
Dozens of respondents cited emotional or psychological effects. Others said they blamed themselves for the treatment.
A Spanish journalist said “I kind of tried to forget about it and moved on but ended up in psychological therapy years later, as I suffered from really bad self-esteem, depression, extreme fear of men and being around them.”
Some women said they quit their jobs after experiencing repeated harassment, and a few said they relocated entirely.
Respondents also said they made an effort to change their behavior around others, including not making eye contact, not attending work social functions (when harassment occurred in the workplace) and not forming friendships with anyone related to work. Several women said they have modified the way they dress for work, or make an effort to present themselves as personally conservative.
An Israeli respondent who reported being harassed by interviewees said she became “colder and more critical, more distant, during my interviews.”
Many women said they were able to ignore sexual harassment. A correspondent from the Falklands said, “It doesn’t bother me too much although I do feel a bit nauseated sometimes.”
Who knew Roger Ailes influence was so pervasive?
https://www.iwmf.org/blog/2014/03/07/sexual-harassment/