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Silent struggle: Russian women face sexual harassment
Published: 10 March, 2010, 08:29
Edited: 04 October, 2010, 12:15
Sexual harassment in the workplace is a sad reality for many women in modern Russia. But without established laws to protect female employees from unwanted attention, many victims suffer in silence.
women all over the world need more respect when we rise our children on moral values they will stop look at women as just sexual object as Arab man who meet many Russian people I can see this issue quaite clear when I help woman to find a job or what ever she think that I will ask her for sex !! some russian women even tell me "get me a job and I will have sex with U !!" oh my God ,may God Help Russian women and make Russian man more stable Amen :)
How can people teach the children moral values and then they learn different things from television. How can we teach them moral values, and then teenagers start going to parties and discos where there is alcohol and drug use. How can we teach children moral values and then women clothes make emphasis on showing the body How comes that women ask for equal rights and then, they wear clothes in the sake of sexual atraction How can the children learn moral values, and then there is not censorship in the music they hear Watch the new Rammstein video "Pussy" and you will see where the music and television industry is going.
I agree that it's all about how we bring up our boys. If the media promote the 'macho' image and boys choose poor role models, what more can we expect? Women's magazines that promote women as sex-objects don't help either. Nor does the 'celebrity' culture. Laws shouldn't really be necessary, for good manners should be central to any civilised society. The schools need to play a bigger role too, to ensure that future parents don't perpetuate the same old stereotypes.
The danger of increased legislation in this area is succombing to the madness of 'political correctness' - the scourge of British society, where freedom of speech is under threat. Being offended is part of growing up, and part of life itself. We can over-legislate and this is dangerous to society.
This is certainly a shameful truth for us. The way our women are treated in the workplace and in education in sexual terms is truly appaling. They are basically targeted and then exploited by bosses who treat their position of power as a tool to harass women. It's basically sleep with me or leave. It isn't just a Russian national thing either, I have seen foreign bosses of multinantionals in Russia doing exactly the same thing, indeed they appreciate the 'freedom'. So this problem needs to be stamped out here, that requires the enactment of laws, plus trusted reporting mechanisms, because few women would report to authorities, for fear of getting harrased by them as well. I don't want to see cameras in every office ceiling like in the US. But we need to start action on this, it has gone on far too long. Women need respect and not just flowers on March the 8th. This respect comes from not only laws but starting to teach our boys that respect and responsibility is their domain as well. For far too long, everything has been the womans problem.