"Telling people jokes that are based on gender, that is a gateway to other behavior," the chair of the industry organization says., the Hollywood Commission, an organization chaired by Anita Hill, found that gender harassment, or offensive workplace talk, is the most common type of harassment in the entertainment industry.
Hill, a professor at Brandeis University who brought national exposure to the issue of sexual harassment during the 1991 Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says tolerating offensive or demeaning jokes about someone's gender needs to be tackled precisely because it encourages worse behavior that she and her Commission has been working to eliminate in Hollywood.
Hill says gender harassment, often crude language that's anything but physical or sexual, needs to be an industry focus as it can lead to larger offenses, and even criminal behavior, despite industry efforts to tackle sexual misconduct three years after the launch of the #MeToo movement. "We're hoping that not only do we identify behavior that's happening, sexual harassment of all forms, but that we can work to prevent the most egregious forms by addressing and calling out gender harassment and alerting people to the harm of this behavior," Hill adds.
Males with influence and power are the most common perpetrators of sexual coercion and sexual assault among females who said coercion and assault were the worst conduct they experienced. And co-workers and peers"more often commit gender harassment and unwanted sexual attention than do those with power and influence." At the same time, powerful women in Hollywood remain abusers as well, the survey found.
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