Law.com write…
The senior figures also offer advice to women who may face such incidents.
Despite huge strides being made in recent years to stamp out harassment against women, such instances continue to occur within the legal industry. Earlier in March, a former DWF lawyer was banned from the profession by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for having allegedly “sexually harassed a junior colleague by sending her sexually explicit WhatsApp messages”.
Meanwhile a recent study conducted by the United Nations Women U.K. found that 97% of women aged between 18 and 24 have experienced sexual harassment in public spaces in the U.K., with 45% of women of all ages stating they didn’t believe reporting their experiences to an official organisation would change anything.
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