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(9,971 posts)Im so sorry that youve endured so much, but I really appreciate your speaking out about it. As a woman who worked in corporate America my whole career, I experienced too many pats, wandering hands, and outright requests for sex. But like you, when confronted with their inappropriate behavior, the men backed down. I worry that we are so overblowing the Franken incident that we will achieve the exact opposite of more opportunity for women without workplace harrassment. Anyone who has worked in business knows that it's quite easy to write job descriptions and manipulate interviews in such a way that only while male applicants are hired. Even good men who would not think of harrassing a woman will have second thoughts about hiring a female if there is an equally qualified male in the picture. And, oddly enough, that might actually help minority men, because we also know that HR departments tally the number of minorities hired, and minority men will be preferred over women in the future.