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DSexual harassment OK in Russia as it perpetuates human breeding

Sexual harassment OK in Russia as it perpetuates human breeding

A female Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race. The 22 year old executive had been hoping to become only the third woman in Russia’s history to bring a successful sexual harassment action against a male employer.

She alleged she had been locked out of her office after she refused to have intimate relations with her 47-year-old boss. “He always demanded that female workers signalled to him with their eyes that they desperately wanted to be laid on the boardroom table as soon as he gave the word,” she earlier told the court. “I didn’t realise at first that he wasn’t speaking metaphorically.”

 

The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally. “If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children,” the judge ruled.

 

It would appear that sexual harassment in Russia has become an accepted part of life in the work place. According to a recent survey, 100 per cent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses, and eighty per cent said they did not believe it possible to win promotion without engaging in sexual relations with their male superiors.

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