Can Sexual-Harassment Training Stop the Next Les Moonves?
I give prevention seminars. I think they’re theater, but they’re more than that, too.
For the past 12 years, I’ve offered a two-hour sexual-harassment-prevention course to supervisors at corporations and churches, schools and charities, police departments and law firms. I’ve talked about sexual harassment in sweltering community centers and classrooms that smelled of feet, hushed chapels, and posh executive boardrooms. I’ve been met with disconcerting enthusiasm and glaring hostility and everything in between. Office dogs have sat on my feet as I’ve explained hostile work environments, pastors have asked me to give examples of prohibited “sexual gestures,” and I’ve lectured a roomful of lawyers about propriety with my
