At the blog entitled “In the midst of life, we are in debt, etc,” one former Canadian publishing professional has generated a debate about sexual harassment in the publishing industry.
Here is an excerpt from her post: “I need to write this post, because it turns out a lot of women are silenced in publishing, by the small nature of the industry, and by the fact that most of the execs are men. I’m not in the industry any more, and I’m not going to name names. I am going to write about it…I will tell you that on several occasions, outside of work hours, I was propositioned by the Boss. Once, at a club after a work dinner, all of us drinking till last call, he leaned in and said ‘You are a very sexy woman.’ I laughed it off. Like I laughed off the time we split a cab home from a publishing party and he said ‘Hey! Let’s f***!’ I babied him, stuck in my own stupid Stockholm syndrome.”
Share your thoughts in the comments section–how should the publishing industry address these issues? The post excerpted above was written on the heels of sexual harassment allegations that rocked Penguin Canada last week. (Via Jason Pinter)