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The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women

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This is an excellent, important book for any woman. Even those who have never experienced attempted sexual coercion on the job are not immune, since women are often specifically targeted as they become older and obtain more senior positions. The book details not only how to maintain one's own mental health in the face of sexual abuse on the job, but also how to prevent other adverse effects such as career damage, financial ruin, and ostracism due to a boss' lies. Unfortunately, the severe victimization of women who speak openly or file a lawsuit regarding these problems still continues, despite Anita Hill's courageous example years ago, and this book contains a massive amount of helpful information to combat this problem. This is a must for anyone who even remotely suspects that their boss' sexual "jokes" may be partly serious. The slyness with which these perpetrators hide the coercive nature of their advances can be truly surreal and mind-boggling, and the emotional effects on the woman can be very serious, similar to (or worse than?) rape. Most of the information in this guide is not widely known by the general public. Early reading of this guide just may prevent some very severe problems for you (bankruptcy, ostracism, career loss, and mental and physical illness, to name a few).

Read this book- another how-to guide to take advantage of the extremely one-sided civil rights law to exact revenge on men you don't like. Couches "victims" on how to look for evidence of "victimhood" in every corner. I've seen this abuse in action, since it affected my husband, who lost his job over completely fabricated charges. We're still making up for the damage. While the book likes to point out the outrageous activities that apparently used to happen and are now essentially unheard-of, its true purpose is to drum up courtroom and formal attacks within corporations against men who have risen to positions of power. The authors show obvious glee at the prospect of harming innocent men for the perceived slights of other men through history.

Sexual harassment is now defined as anything that makes a woman uncomfortable. Contrary to the claims of this book and other books, sexual harassment laws are not applied to both genders equally, and never will be because our society presumes guilt by men. Read Hoff-Sommers War Against Boys and Daphne Patai's book on sexual harassment for the other side of this argument. This is another out-of-control book to support an out-of-control system.