Harassment, sexism and progression

In the past week the Liberal Democrats, for whom I once worked, have started to investigate and confront the way that complaints of sexual harassment by party figures were dealt with in the past – announcing two independent inquiries, one QC-led, and co-operating with the Metropolitan police.

We also know the new additions to the Supreme Court, formally announced today, are all men, making Lady Hale the court’s only woman judge.

The Lib Dem subject of these allegations denies the story, and I’m concerned here with the issue of workplace harassment and its link to gender equality.

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Drinking and casual sexism still institutional in top firms, LSB research claims

The legal profession’s culture of ‘casual sexism’ and high levels of drinking has led women and ethnic minority solicitors to adopt special strategies to overcome institutional discrimination in law firms, researchers funded by the Legal Services Board claim today.

Some Asian women solicitors choose to wear western clothes to the office rather than risk looking ‘too ethnic’, and it was ‘perfectly acceptable’ for older barristers to ‘hit on’ women barristers, it was claimed.

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