How Sexual Harassment Shapes Politics in Washington


"Eight Essays On Sexual Discrimination And Harassment In D.C., Across Politics, Policy, And The Media. February 8, 2018. Elizabeth Drew - Ana Marie Cox - Sarah Jones - Eve Fairbanks - Heather Boushey - Ai-jen Poo - Monica Potts - Jill Abramson. ... Domestic Workers, Too by Ai-jen Poo. Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. As the United States faces up to the prevalence and impact of sexual misconduct in the workplace, the consistent story we have heard from survivors, time and again, is one of power imbalance. Actual or perceived, the distance between power held by men and by women in this country has directly resulted in cycles of harassment, misconduct, and abuse from which our society has looked away for decades. Imagine, then, the breeding ground for abuse created in the nation’s capital by some of the world’s most powerful men—and it is usually men—for the domestic workers laboring behind the closed doors of their Washington residences. ..."
New Republic

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