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Article

16 Oct 2017

Author:
Georgina Stanley, Legal Week (USA)

UK: Two thirds of female lawyers have experienced sexual harassment at work, research finds

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Nearly two thirds of female lawyers have experienced some form of sexual harassment while working in a law firm, according to new Legal Week research…

The survey of more than 200 lawyers found that only a small percentage of the women experiencing harassment had reported it to their firms, with 82% staying silent…

…[T]he research highlights a gender divide in terms of the scale of the problem, and how seriously respondents think firms are taking the issue.

While 80% of all 200 respondents to the survey say firms now take sexual harassment either ‘very’ or ‘quite’ seriously, this figure rises to 90% for male respondents and falls to 65% for female respondents…

Though the findings are positive in that both male and female respondents agree that the problem is much less prevalent than it was in the past, they also highlight the challenge firms have to fully eradicate it, with more needing to be done to encourage women to come forward.