Westminster MPs treated staff like servants, inquiry finds

Women’s careers blighted by inaction over bullying and harassment, says reportDame Laura Cox’s inquiry has laid bare the scale of sexual harassment, intimidation and bullying in Westminster, the vast majority of it targeted at women, whose careers have been blighted by a lack of action on the issue, according to her report.All of the allegations of sexual harassment detailed in the report were made against male MPs or staff. Women found themselves the target of jokes by gangs of “boorish” male MPs who made lewd comments and sexual gestures and made them answer “offensive and humiliating” questions about their sex lives, she found. Continue reading…
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