A new report reveals worrying levels of sexual harassment and bullying within the legal sector
A new report reveals worrying levels of sexual harassment and bullying within the legal sector
30 May 2018
The Law Society has just released its Workplace Environment Survey of three and a half thousand lawyers.
It follows increasing numbers of young women complaining about sexual harassment within the profession.
Nearly one in five lawyers who took part in the survey have been sexually harassed during their working life and 28 percent of them have witnessed it.
Women are worst affected, with 31 percent of them saying they've been victims of sexual harassment, compared to five percent of men.
More than half of the lawyers surveyed have experienced bullying to some degree.
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