Helena Morrissey tells MPs women in financial sector are nervous of speaking out and do not trust HR departments
Helena Morrissey called for an independent review of sexism in City of London firms.Helena Morrissey called for an independent review of sexism in City of London firms.Sexual harassment and misogyny are allowed to go unchecked at City firms because women have a “fear factor” over speaking out and do not trust human resource departments, MPs have been warned.
“There’s also testimony that in each time where women have escalated what has happened to them, it has made their working lives worse. “There’s a distrust of HR, quite widespread,” continued Morrissey, a top fund manager. “I have quite a lot of sympathy with the HR departments because they’re doing a very difficult role here.
Mark Freed, the chief executive of E2W and Men for Inclusion, told the committee that all men had a responsibility to “stand up” and solve the issue. He said a recent letter from a member about an experience of harassment had read: “So many otherwise, at least relatively, good men turned a blind eye because he was a partner and dealing with his behaviour was probably too problematic.”
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