UNISON, guide, harassment, bullying, defnitions, surveys, support, women at workSexual haraament and bullying still a big workplace problem.

According to figures published by the TUC, 52 per cent of all women and nearly two thirds of women aged between 18 and 24 have experienced sexual harassment at work.

We have already reported on the TUC study, ‘Still just a bit of banter?‘, carried out with the Everyday Sexism Project; it also found that nearly one in three women have been the subject of unwelcome jokes of a sexual nature at work; more than one in four women have been the subject of comments of a sexual nature about their body or clothes at work; nearly a quarter of women have experienced unwanted touching; a fifth of women have experienced unwanted verbal sexual advances at work; and around one in eight women have experienced unwanted sexual touching or attempts to kiss them at work.

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