Sexual harassment is alive and well in the workplace in 2025

I meet a wide variety of individuals on a daily basis, people telling me about their particular problems.

The problems could range from family law, broken relationships, disputes with neighbours, fights over property, litigation with lenders, personal injury claims, and so on.

One issue which I find triggering, and is probably because I have three daughters, is sexual harassment in the workplace.

And before you jump all over me and tell me that men can be victims too, my experience is I have never had such a case.

When I have a young woman who is bright, intelligent, well educated, and in her first job experiencing the degradation of inappropriate sexual innuendo and contact in the workplace I always think of my daughters.

I get flashbacks to family dinners when we would all sit around the table in the evening and I would ask the girls, and my son, how did school go today?

That is what I think about when I am faced with an account of sexual harassment from a young woman, as happens all too frequently, who has embarked on a professional career and discovers that changing the culture cannot be taken for granted.

All I can do is my best.

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