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In the U.S. much has been in the news about prominent individuals' abusing their notoriety and/or power to create duress -- personal, social, financial/professional and/or political -- and in turn cajole others into acquiescing to all sorts of things from obliging a fetish to performing various sex acts. Far less often, however, do we hear about "regular" folks doing the same things.
Yes, we have the national sex offenders list, but when does any news organization announce the addition of new individuals to that list? Never, AFAIK. Are all or most sexual harassment EEOC cases mentioned on the national nightly or cable news? Even the publications that purport to list "all" the sexual wrongdoing cases don't actually do so.
Indeed, they don't even come close. According to the EEOC, in from 2010 to 2017, there were about 12.5K (give or take) reports of sexual harassment in the workplace. Of all those cases filed in the same years:
In the U.S. we seem to have a "top-down" (no pun) approach to broadcasting sexual harassment. It seems that unless one "raped a dozen people" or is a celebrity bereft of libido control, there's no mention of it. In the U.K., however, it seems that sexual wrongdoing by "commoners" is also making the news.
Yes, we have the national sex offenders list, but when does any news organization announce the addition of new individuals to that list? Never, AFAIK. Are all or most sexual harassment EEOC cases mentioned on the national nightly or cable news? Even the publications that purport to list "all" the sexual wrongdoing cases don't actually do so.
Indeed, they don't even come close. According to the EEOC, in from 2010 to 2017, there were about 12.5K (give or take) reports of sexual harassment in the workplace. Of all those cases filed in the same years:
- ~22% to 26% of them resulted in "merit resolutions." "Merit resolutions" include negotiated settlements, withdrawals with benefits, successful conciliations, and unsuccessful conciliations, all of which are outcomes in which was found "reasonable cause to believe that discrimination occurred based upon evidence obtained in investigation."
- ~50% to ~56% were closed due to there being "no reasonable cause."
- ~21% to ~22% were closed for administrative reasons having nothing to do with the substance of the allegation a complainant reported.
- ~6% to ~8% withdrew their EEOC claim/charge upon receiving their "desired benefit" (compensation). (This closure status, in effect, means "the claimant got what they wanted, so s/he dropped the matter." There isn't any clear indication for those cases whether the "desired benefit" was received before or after the EEOC had communicated its opinion on the matter.)
In the U.S. we seem to have a "top-down" (no pun) approach to broadcasting sexual harassment. It seems that unless one "raped a dozen people" or is a celebrity bereft of libido control, there's no mention of it. In the U.K., however, it seems that sexual wrongdoing by "commoners" is also making the news.
- An undercover sting has revealed offering free or reduced rent in exchange for sexual favours is stunningly common.
Thousands of men and women in England have been offered free or reduced rent in exchange for sexual favours in the last five years, according to YouGov poll carried out with the housing charity Shelter. The survey of nearly 4000 tenants carried out between July and August 2017 found that 4 percent of men and 3 percent of women had been offered, or knew someone who had been offered, such a deal in the last year.