5 Simple Things Any Executive Can Do to Combat Sexual Harassment At Work

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November 16, 2017
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Fortune
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Sexual harassment isn’t a problem any one person can solve. Instead, it’s something all of us need to take on and chip away at, bit by bit.

Speakers on a Monday afternoon panel at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in Laguna Niguel, Calif. had a few tactical suggestions for what any executive can do to help foster a workplace culture in which all employees feel comfortable and safe.

Stanford law professor Michele Landis Dauber advised women to “utilize the processes of democratic accountability to hold perpetrators responsible.” Dauber is currently leading the campaign to recall Judge Aaron Persky, the judge who sentenced Stanford Brock Turner to only six months in county jail and three years probation for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman last year.

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