Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/12
By: Chiu Po-sheng and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, April 12 (CNA) Men tend to be more tolerant than women of sexual harassment in
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the workplace, which has been encountered by more than 50 percent of office workers in Taiwan, according to a poll released Thursday by 1111 online job bank.
The survey on gender equality in the workplace found that 46 percent of office employees who experienced sexual harassment on the job had opted not to report it and that the level of tolerance among men for such behavior was higher at 58.3 percent than among women (44.4 percent).
However, 68 percent of women in office jobs in Taiwan have been subjected to sexual harassment at work, compared with 20 percent of men, according to the poll.
Sexual harassment on the job mainly takes the form of unwanted deliberate touching (67.6 percent), verbal harassment (61.5 percent), and insulting and discriminatory comments (35.5 percent), the poll found. [FULL STORY]
