Sound familiar?

December 29th, 2009by: Jennifer

In China, a 28-yer-old woman has won the first sexual harassment lawsuit since the country passed the Chinese Women’s Rights Protection Law back in 2005.
The woman, surnamed Luo, suffered repeated groping from her new boss at the Japanese-owned company Moriroku (Guangzhou) Plastics Company Limited. She complained to the institution officials, even producing photographs of her [...]

Revising my “worst case” assessment

December 17th, 2009by: Jennifer

Did I say that the Jay Glosser case was one of the worst stories of sexual harassment retaliation I’ve heard? Well, it still is, but now I’ve stumbled across another one that is worse.
Frank Garcia, a former nursing supervisor in Rochester, New York, has been sentenced to three life terms for murder. Prosecutors [...]

Guilty: update on the TCC murder plot

December 5th, 2009by: Jennifer

Recently, LiveScience and Yahoo featured an article published by a university professor which claims the more formally educated someone is, the better they are at handling anger. Source (As if people stop learning when they quit going to classes.)
This made me laugh out loud. After working in social science research for years with [...]

Murder plot in retaliation for sexual harassment complaint

December 4th, 2006by: Jennifer

On first read, this sounds pretty extreme in terms of retaliation against a sexual harassment complainant.  But in actuality, many of us experience retaliation that is akin to murder, if not in the physical sense.  As the judge put it in the Christina Orozco stalking case, you can murder a person in other ways, such as by destroying their reputation, [...]