Not just banter: Women journalists speak out against sexual harassment
by Daria Sukharcuk
"Sexual attacks against journalists have the effect of silencing the messenger and blocking the dissemination of news and information," the Committee to Protect Journalists concluded in its 2011 report. Not much has changed since then; but more women are standing up for the right to do their jobs without being physically or verbally assaulted.
Unwanted sexual advance on a woman. (Photo: Edith Castro Roldán, Oscar Manuel Luna Nieto - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38763173)
“I was 21 when I was interviewing a Canadian writer about an English-language writers’ club in Shanghai. It was my…
