40% OF BULGARIA’S WOMEN SAY THEY SUFFERED HARASSMENT AT WORK

Views on BG | March 10, 2002, Sunday // 00:00

Up to 40% of Bulgarian women have suffered harassment at their workplace, data from a national representative survey conducted by the Agency for Social Research (ASR) show.

2.2% of the female respondents said they have suffered sexual harassment at their workplace in the past 12 months. Sexual harassment is a stigma issue and most victims do not report such incidents. The domestic labour code does not disallow sexual harassment and does not envisage any penalties.

52.06% of the country's unemployed are women; 76% of employers are men.

Women spend 21 hours on average doing household work every week.

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