Armed forces admit sex harassment
 

Which bright young sub-editor at the Beeb added the paragraph headings?

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"Shoulders back lovely boy."

I was interested to see the statistics "20% of Naval women, one in eight in the Army, and 10%". Or is that, 20% of Naval women, 12.5% in the Army, and 10%......................probably just me!

Surprisingly MoD had the wit to put Sheila Haughton up to face the 'gentlemen' of the press. She is a far cry from some of the brain-dead pension-loiterers that pass for higher personnel managers in the RAF & MoD.

Isn't that the point of informal complaints? To stop the harassment before it needs formal action? You have a word, harasser apologises and starts behaving, job done with no paperwork! From these stats, maybe it's working! Or am I being a bit hopeful there?

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Isn't that the point of informal complaints? To stop the harassment before it needs formal action? You have a word, harasser apologises and starts behaving, job done with no paperwork! From these stats, maybe it's working! Or am I being a bit hopeful there?


I think this is part of it but, significantly, until VERY recently the perpetrator was often allowed to judge his/her own case. The rules required complaints to be elevated through the management / command chain and if the perpetrator was in that chain, it put a lot of victims off. The rules have changed, allowing one to bypass management if they are the problem.

In such a robust walk of life these cases are always difficult. The last one I had to deal with, a young NCO had been over-suggestive to two older female civvies. One complained, the other admitted she loved it. A quiet word followed by an apology fixed it, as to proceed further would have been a waste of time. Common sense, now overtaken by PC.