Nearly a quarter of women in the UK who have faced work-based sexual harassment said that it has increased online during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from the legal charity Rights of Women, which supports survivors of abuse.
In late 2020, the charity surveyed hundreds of women and also found that 42% of respondents had recently experienced harassment from co-workers online and that more than 70% think their employers are not doing enough to protect them.
One woman reported how “the director of the company uses Zoom to take screenshots of myself and other women which he shares with colleagues making derogatory statements and implying the photos look like we’re doing sexual acts.”
