Stereotypical: Harassment claims more credible if women 'conventionally attractive'


By AGENCY

When someone who isn't conventionally attractive is experiencing sexual harassment, people don't believe them, or their experiences are not being taken seriously, researcher Bandt-Law said.

No one could get over the drawing of the woman holding a martini. Or her long, slightly mussed hair, her big lips, her long lashes and hourglass figure.

Of course she would be sexually harassed, the study participants thought.

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