40.6% of women over 16 years of age acknowledge that they have suffered sexual or gender-based harassment and one in five cases occurs in the work environment (Gender Violence Survey of the Ministry of Equality). That is more than 1.5 million women, 1.5 million 'jennis', as pointed out by the Workers' Commissions, which this morning presented the report “2022-2023. One year of the CC.OO Sexual and Harassment Observatory,” on the occasion of 25-N.
The campaign endorses the phrase "It's over" that arose this summer after the alleged harassment (it is under investigation) suffered by the Spanish soccer team player Jennifer Hermoso, by the then president of the Spanish Soccer Federation Federation. (RFEF), Luis Rubiales.
The head of CC.OO., Unai Sordo, has pointed out that, according to the report, more than 98% of harassment based on sex is carried out by men in a very hierarchical work environment in which one is in charge and the worker complies, and in which the victim often remains silent precisely because the complaint could lead to dismissal. "It is a very invisible violence," says Sordo.
The Secretary for Women of the CC.OO. Trade Union Confederation, Carolina Vidal, has described the 40.6% of women who have suffered sexual harassment as a "tremendously serious figure", more than one and a half million of them in the workplace. labor. "That tells us that there are women who suffer sexual harassment every day," she lamented. It is, she has said, a "tremendously hidden" reality that the observatory aims to "make visible."
Sordo believes that companies' equality plans are a "great" instrument to fight not only harassment based on sex, but also to make progress in reducing the wage gap. But we must go one step further, he indicated, "protocols against harassment must be generalized in companies," he indicated.
The leader of CC.OO. Sordo has taken the opportunity to denounce the “permanent attacks in the demonstrations” of these days against journalists and cameras and has asked for protection for them, as workers. Sordo believes that when workers are sent to cover demonstrations in which “there are totalitarian mobs in the street” it is necessary to “take care of the safety and physical integrity of the colleagues who are there.” And he adds: attacks and harassment in this sector usually have a certain gender bias, since "reporters and cameras suffer a specific type of harassment."
