Quantifying Sexual Harassment
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2023
- Giulia Zacchia (@SapienzaRoma) focuses on the dynamics of power and gender in the labor market, revealing how sexual harassment not only impacts individual women but also perpetuates broader societal inequalities. From exploring the challenges in defining and quantifying sexual harassment to examining its multifaceted impact on wages and career trajectories, Zacchia offers a nuanced understanding of this pervasive issue.
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Thoroughly insightful presentation on a difficult subject. I've worked in the shipping industry and found her explanation of harassment in male dominated workplaces quite accurate and understandable. Harassment is not always sexual in nature as she points out and its definition needs to be expanded. It is also important to recognise how harassment effects males as it is sometimes carried out to make their position almost insufferable.
My only concern is that this research seems will gather data from women only. It's a missed opportunity to broaden the discussion to include desensitisation, normalisation, gender equivocation and appropriate solutions/ sanctions. I fear it will not include men as an ally but purely as the subject to be dealt with. Pity.
don't listen to victims, listen to their predators.😂😂
I wonder if hijab and the strict Islamic rules about how to talk to women (you can't be too flirtatious, must always be professional) could solve the problem of women being seen as lesser in the workplace.
Even in a Non-Muslim country, my mother says that wearing hijab makes employers and co-workers see her as powerful and serious compared to her peers. Sometimes, her co-workers fear her, in the way employees fear their bosses, even though they all know she is very friendly.
Hijab looks like ninja after all, especially if it is black like mother's hijab. Women are naturally cute, but hijab being more than merely modest, but being as covering as a space suit or a suit of armour, or like ninjas hiding their identities, makes women look much more serious, and in some cases scary (especially if she is the boss and the man working for her is a lasy guy afraid of losing his job). Hijab can command respect in good cases and fear in bad times.
Think of criminals and policemen and soldiers covering their faces. That makes them scarier and taken more seriously. Even if the women shows her face, hiding her hair makes her look like she has come from space to judge humanity. Hair is nature, and fabric is technology, which represents power and civilisation, and intelligence and detachment from sexuality and other aspects of nature.
This is my speculation.
This speculation also applies to men. Non-Muslim women expose their legs and other parts of their bodies at work, but men always wear long sleeves, long trousers, even covering their neck. This is to desexualise them and make them command more respect (including fear). More fabric, more civilisation, less sex and more power.
Islam attaches the woman to her family and makes her father and brothers responsible for her safety. People think this is imprisoning her, but in practice, it is what makes men outside the family afraid of interacting with her too flirtatiously or harassing her, because they fear her family.
What do you all think?
This is a thought provoking and interesting comment. I've talked with my brother about this and we considered your view carefully. The main point we had was about the beauty of God and how he must love beauty in the world. He created everything that is beautiful but we can only see beauty objectively as coming from the soul body or actions of character. The intellect of a beautiful and gifted woman comes to us through the senses in a spirited way and the impulse may be to shroud her further in mystery and intrigue as you have conveyed... but is this truly accompanying the spirit of beauty.
Maybe the answer is found in the various forms beauty takes. Maybe the answer is found in the cartoonish reality of modern idealistic fashion. I'd imagine that the soul, the poor man's tragedy, is the key to understanding beauty and without it there is nothing but mushrooms in the night. The illusion. Anyway, thanks for a wholesome comment. I will consider it more and prompt you to describe in further detail what defines beauty in our loving female companions. Sending all my best from Ireland.
hijab is disgusting - men don't shy away because they are empowered but because they are desubjectivised - nullified - they are disgusted by them. women shouldn't have to wear themselves to abide to predators' intimidations.
viva l'omosessualita' e viva le donne e gli uomini liberi.