In “This Moment Isn’t (Just) About Sex. It’s Really About Work,” Rebecca Traister writes:
[I]n the midst of our great national calculus, in which we are determining what punishments fit which sexual crimes, it’s possible that we’re missing the bigger picture altogether: that this is not, at its heart, about sex at all — or at least not wholly. What it’s really about is work, and women’s equality in the workplace, and more broadly, about the rot at the core of our power structures that makes it harder for women to do work because the whole thing is tipped toward men.
Traister also states that “sexual harassment is a crime not simply on the grounds that it is a sexual violation, but because it is a form of discrimination.”
Do you agree with Traister? Why or why not?
As you look beyond college to your own future career, are you concerned about workplace sexual harassment?