If it wasn’t their own experience, it was a friend’s or a sister’s. There were 10 of us that afternoon in our Cosmopolitan features meeting, and I’d just brought up the latest research that found that hospitality workers in insecure employment are 60% more likely to report experiencing sexual harassment than the national average**. Women are twice as likely to report harassment than men. But while the research is new, the stories we – a group of women, aged 21 to 39, all currently working in magazines – shared, were not. There were stories of sexual harassment in summer jobs years ago and tales heard on the grapevine about top chefs in Michelin-star restaurants, who everyone knew were vile… yet they still remained in that top job. It was becoming…
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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024/January 2025