Speak Up!

Crystal, Pennsylvania
     Let me start with I am 1 of 5 female employees at a painting company. The company is owned by two men. I will call them Bevis and Butthead. Bevis is the president of the company and also the father of my boyfriend (of the last 9+years).   Butthead is the HR man, [...]

Faith, New York
     I was so excited about my new position! I was to be Assistant Principal Operations at a prestigious High School in New York City; right off the east side highway. I started working there in Aug 2008. Having ten years experience as a teacher and advanced degrees in educational administration; I [...]

Mary, Georgia, USA and Amsterdam, NL
     I joined a global, primarily male dominated electronics company 3 years ago.  My intention was to continue my career in a productive way with a global company in whom opportunities were plentiful for seasoned executives who delivered/exceeded expectations. To my great misfortune, I reported to what can only be described as a deeply insecure [...]

Jill Thompson, Maryland
     As a self-employed female vendor, my customers were car dealers.  Until it happened to me, I never even thought about sexual harassment.  Believe me, when working and investing in my skill and business to be self-employed, sexual harassment was never considered as a factor in the equation. 
     It started out of the [...]

Colleen, Texas
     I worked in an environment of approximately eighty people on my shift/department.  During this time, I was repeatedly subjected to lewd jokes, sexual comments and gestures, physical contact, all of it unwelcome and disgusting. There was five men doing this to me.
     I was one of three women, the other two married with [...]

Katrina, Denver
     I switched to an overnight shift from my previous day shift because my family needed the extra money.  
     At first, I didn’t think anything of it when my new supervisor started asking me personal questions.  He asked about my home life with my husband and my sexual past and things like if I [...]

Sarah, Minnesota
     I worked as a night manager for a store owned largely by my sister and her husband.  They owned 90% of the business, and the husband’s parents own the other 10%.  However, the parents have 100% governing rights over the business, so they had full say over what was done and not done.
     In [...]

Ashley, North Carolina
     I work for an oil company.  I had a customer that kept coming into my workplace for about a year.  He kept saying the most sexually explicit things to me and would come to my work and harass me for hours.  One day he spread my legs apart while saying these really sexually explicit comments. 
     I [...]

Lupe, Arkansas    
     I used to work at a construction site until I was fired for rejecting a supervisor who wanted to go out with me.
     When I first started working at the construction firm, there was this man that kept asking me out and I kept saying “No.”     
     He seemed to stop and I thought everything was okay.   [...]

I will never be the same
     I was working as a temp at a technology company.
     This engineer posted a collage of pictures  on the wall and told me to come look at them.  Then he started asking me personal questions:  Do you have a boyfriend?  Do you see him a lot?  
      I couldn’t see the pictures [...]