Thread by @rightsofwomen

🚨 Our sexual harassment at work conference is starting now🚨

🗣️Be part of the conversation by using the hashtag #metooconference and tagging us.

💜We’ll be posting throughout the day and would love to hear from you!

📢"As women we are brought up to accept through our whole lives that we are not safe from sexual violence anywhere."

Powerful words from our first speaker @_HelenMott_ on the importance of being alive to the psychology of bias in sexual harassment cases. #metooconference

.@_HelenMott_ on 🚩himpathy🚩: the inappropriate & disproportionate sympathy for perpetrators, including a reluctance to believe women who report and reluctance to punish perpetrators of sexual harassment.

🛑This creates barriers to women's access to justice. #metooconference

Employers need to recognise the vulnerability of the complainant in sexual harassment cases.

@EleenaMisra @OldSqChambers talks about how the reaction of the employer can dictate the entire tone of the experience for the complainant. #metooconference

👀"Other's might be waiting to see what happens when one person reports before reporting (sexual harassment) themselves."

💚"Language matters and there needs to be a sufficient degree of warmth and support (for complainants)."

👏👏👏@EleenaMisra @OldSqChambers #metooconference

👉Sexual harassment and assaults between colleagues extends beyond the office or home.

@SuzanneMcKieQC @FaroreLaw on the importance of reflecting the realities of sexual harassment in the workplace in law, practice and prevention.💯

#metooconference

Hearing about tribunal judgments and comments made by tribunal members regarding a woman taking a long time to complain about sexual harassment.

It is vital Employment Tribunals understand how and why victims can behave this way.

#metooconference #BelieveWomen

"...people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou

Rehana Azib @2TempleGardens speaking now on how words, conduct and behavior of others can have a devastating psychiatric impact on women when they come forward to report sexual harassment.💔

#metooconference

📢Employers have to act on their risk assessment and have proper health surveillance which means recording and reviewing on a regular basis.

👏Rehana Azib @2TempleGardens highlighting there is an ongoing duty on employer to review risk assessment periodically.

#metooconference

⚖️Power disparities between a victim and harasser are often a consequence of employment.

Rehana Azib @2TempleGardens reminds us it's important to remember this as a factor that can make the victim more vulnerable and less likely to come forward.

#metooconference