8 July 2025, 14:24 | Updated: 8 July 2025, 14:35

By Flaminia Luck

A female bus driver spends several months being stalked by a passenger, who takes photos of her and leans into her cab to touch her without her consent - but whenever she raises it with management she is told that because he has paid for a ticket there is nothing they can do.

One women airline worker is physically assaulted by a male colleague.

She reports it but nothing is done and she still has to work with him, despite the fact she is scared of seeing him.

A health worker raises sexual harassment with her manager, but is asked what kind of clothing she was wearing when it happens.

Then, when she takes it higher up to the director, she is advised to wear a ring on her engagement finger as a deterrent.

These comments are just three out of hundreds I've read from women workers, who are being failed by their employers when it comes to workplace harassment.

For the past six months, I have been working on a landmark piece of research at Unite the union, polling our women members - almost 300,000 of them - across the 19 sectors we have representation on whether they have been sexually harassed in the workplace by a manager, colleague or a third party such as a patient, passenger or customer.

The results have made for stark reading - the problem is endemic.

A quarter have been sexually assaulted, while almost one in 10 (8 per cent) have been a victim of sexual........

© LBC