Forty-three percent of women polled have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, among which nearly 90 percent said that they kept silent, a survey released yesterday by the Modern Women’s Foundation showed.
Of the survey’s respondents, the majority, or 63.5 percent, said they were harassed physically, while 60.9 percent said they were verbally harassed.
The survey found that 37.1 percent were subject to unwelcome advances, staring and the distribution of pictures or messages of a highly sexualized nature.
The foundation said that 41.7 percent of those harassed were targeted by their supervisors, and among them, 13.8 percent said that their harasser was the
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The biblical, and now sainted, Mary of Magdala has sloughed through quite a journey during the last two thousand years. As a beloved disciple of Christ, she helped bankroll his ministry, saw him crucified, buried, and was the first person to witness his resurrection. When the patriarchy of the church fathers thought threatened, she was ceremoniously rebooted into a vision of repentant whore.
Pope Gregory the Great, now also a saint, did that to her in a series of homilies in 591 A.D. when he shoehorned all the references to any of the “sinful women” who had fleeting association to Jesus – the adulteress dragged before Christ for his judgment, the woman with the “bad name” who anointed his feet with oil and dried them with her hair – into the Mary Magdalene we know today. To this day she remains sinful but blessed.