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Taking Sides
among women 15-44 years old. Los Angeles Times A2 (October 3,
1992).
1 Independent on Sunday 2 (October 20, 1991). In the U.S. Navy 56 per
cent of women harassed did not report it. Los Angeles Times A1 (February
10, 1992). The Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women found
that 37 per cent of city employees had been sexually harassed, compared
to the 25—30 per cent reported in national surveys. Only 9 per cent made
informal complaints and 5 per cent formal complaints. Within that group,
16 per cent found that coworkers and supervisors became unfriendly, 11
per cent suffered health problems, 5 per cent were transferred, and 4 per
cent said their job evaluations suffered. LosAngeles TimesM (September
23, 1992).
2 New York Times s.4 p.6 (November 24, 1991). Because these figures
included physical assaults the proportion of insults reported is even
lower.
3 2-5 per cent in Camden, Newham and Southwark. 193 Searchlightb (July
1991); Daily Telegraph (May 14, 1991); Independent (May 14, 1991). 5
per cent in Newham in 1987. Home Office (1989: para 15). A survey of a
single housing estate in Tower Hamlets disclosed 111 incidents in an
eight-month period of 1982, although the police recorded only 205 for
the entire borough. 72 of those respondents had called the police, who
recorded no incidents. When the Metropolitan Police required a report
every time a complainant alleged a racial motivation for a crime, the
monthly average increased almost tenfold, from 25 in 1981 to 219 in
1982. GLC (1984d: 4, 6, 33, 49). The Leeds Housing Department
increased complaints of racial harassment nearly fivefold by responding
promptly. Independent Commission (n.d.: 33-36).
4 Best & Andreasen (1977). The clearest example is spousal abuse.
5 Tyson also insinuated that Washington was after his money. In fact, an
intermediary offered her a million dollars to drop the charges. New York
Times B14 (January 31, 1992), A8 (March 16, 1992).
When the tabloid New York Post reported that a forthcoming book
accused Bush of spending the night with a female aide in the cottage of
the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland in 1984, Clinton piously declared "I
don't think it has any place in this campaign"—thereby ensuring the
charge would be repeated. The Los Angeles Times ran a story about the
fact that there was insufficient evidence to warrant covering the allegation!
Los Angeles Times A20 (August 13, 1992).
6 Hirschmann(1970).
7 Heinz & Kerstetter (1979).
8 Moriarty (1975).
9 Bentley (1955); McFeely (1968); Crouch (1992).
10 Genn(1982).
11 Guardian 5 (November 20, 1991).
12 Observer 7 (September 19, 1991); Guardian 2 (October 31, 1991).
13 Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Sisters Against Drunk Driving. See, e.g.
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