| | | | | View in your browser | | |  | | | | | | Harassment, then helplessness, in state capitals | After being groped in public by a powerful committee chairman, one young state legislator in an Eastern state, serving her first term in office, decided to take the political risk of reporting the assault.
She learned she would need to report the incident to the ethics committee overseeing her state’s legislature.
Then she learned the chairman of the ethics committee was the man who assaulted her.
For women in state legislatures across the country who routinely experience what they call a pervasive culture of sexual harassment, assault and retaliation, there is often little or no recourse. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Did a friend forward you this email? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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