Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/08
By: Yu Hsiao-han and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, March 8 (CNA) More than half of Taiwanese women would view sexual harassment
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in the workplace as a joke and would take no action, according to a poll released by the Ministry of Labor on Thursday, International Women’s Day.
It was also found that 4.4 percent of women and 4 percent of men in Taiwan had suffered sexual harassment on the job over one-year period leading up to the September 2017 poll.
Among the female workers, the sexual harassment came mainly from co-workers (47.7 percent), customers (38.6 percent) and supervisors (25.0 percent), according to the poll.
Asked about their response if they were subjected to sexual harassment on the job, 54.7 percent of the women polled said they would laugh it off and take no action, while 33.4 percent said they would file a complaint. [FULL STORY]
