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Sep 2021
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Why are women harassed at work?

Bbc World Service
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Across Africa’s newsrooms, sexual harassment appears to be rife. That’s according to research by Women in News - a media development programme. Half of all the women surveyed said they’d been harassed at work - and only a third had reported it. So, despite all the progress with the #metoo movement, why is sexual harassment still so widespread? And what’s being done to stop it?

Hosted by Alan Kasujja

Guests: Mary (not her real name) and Molly Chimhanda, senior manager at Women in News.

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