Dan Peters 18 September 2025

EXCLUSIVE SURVEY: 'Women are being failed'

EXCLUSIVE SURVEY: Women are being failed image
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One in 10 local authority female staff have experienced inappropriate touching by a manager, a landmark sexual harassment survey by trade union Unite has found.

Some 18% had experienced it from another colleague while 5% reported sexual coercion – when a person pressures, tricks, threatens or manipulates someone into engaging in sexual activity without genuine consent – from someone at work.

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