How a culture of harassment persisted on Ford’s factory floors

By Susan Chira and Catrin Einhorn, nytimes.com

The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at Ford, one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women found menace.

Bosses and fellow laborers treated them as property or prey. Men crudely commented on their breasts and buttocks. Graffiti of penises was carved into tables, spray-painted onto floors and scribbled onto walls. They groped women, pressed against them, simulated sex acts or masturbated in front of them. Supervisors traded better assignments for sex and punished those who refused.

Read more at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/19/us/ford-chicago-sexual-harassment.html

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