Philadelphia City Council Committee on Law and Government, 13 Feb 2018

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From YouTube: Monique Howard of WOAR on Mandatory Sexual Harassment Prevention Training 2-13 -2018

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From the Hearing of the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Law and Government held Tuesday, February 13, 2018:

Dr. Monique Howard, Executive Director of Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR), delivers testimony on Bill No. 170716,

An Ordinance providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of the proposal set forth in a Resolution approved by Council proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the operating budget and providing for a mandatory minimum annual appropriation to the Police Advisory Commission or any successor body or bodies; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election; all under certain terms and conditions.

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You please identify yourself and perceive good morning. My name is Monique Howard I'm, the executive director of women organized against rape war, the only rape crisis center in the city of Philadelphia. Thank you to Councilwoman, Reynolds Brown and the women council members for inviting me to prevent present testimony on the bill and the accompanying resolution. The effects of sexual harassment are severe for individuals, workplaces and whole communities. This is a watershed moment, as we continue to be bombarded with sexual harassment allegations among many elected officials and within several industries.

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As the me to and the times up, movements continue to gain momentum, and the leader of this free nation expresses sympathy for those accused of sexual harassment. When your leader makes note of supporting the accused and not the victim, it answers the age-old question of. Why do people wait so long to report? Where does this leave the victims? Sexual harassment is about the misuse of power.

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It presents its president industries, where women do not have equal decision-making authority, male-dominated industries, where women are seen as interlopers service based industries where employees rely on tips and customer approval, low-wage jobs like hotel cleaners or farm workers, where there is limited bargaining power to push back, gender inequality and imbalance of power fosters an environment that is ripe for abuse and harassment against women. In some places. This data shows that 85% of women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.

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75% of harassment, victims, experience, retaliation when they report it and somewhere between 87 and 94 percent of employees. Experience harassment do not file him a formal complaint. All employees deserve to feel safe and supported at work. Employees deserve to not be sexually harassed at work, or at least not fear retribution.

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If abuse or or reported at war, we will continue to conduct trainings, that defined consent and boundary setting utilize, an enhanced bystander intervention to train personnel to understand, predatory behaviors and intervene with effective creative responses and conduct engage in programming on sexual harassment in the workplace and at war. We strongly believe that our employees deserve to feel safe and supported at their job. We will do all that we can to ensure that thank you very much. Councilwoman Reynolds Brown, because of you.

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The city will recognize the importance of taking proactive steps to ensure and support a safer workplace for their employees, responding appropriately. It's a sexual harassment and taking measures to prevent it in important and important steps to an ending harassment. Thank you for working hard to continue to make Philadelphia a safe city. Thank you. Thank you very much.