I'm really curious about the numbers here - what percent of women have ever agreed to such offers for the purpose of getting ahead (at any point in their lifetime).
I'm hoping the number is in the single digits, because if it's higher this type of harassment will never stop.
Oh yeah, that's another thing that happens: when a good-looking woman is successful, others (men and not-so-good-looking women) will assume she must have done sexual favors for someone in power - as opposed to because she's smart and capable.
(You may have asked the question innocently, but... there be dragons.)
1. She gets a promotion she doesn't totally doesn't deserve because she submitted to sexual harassment by her her boss at work. She's happy about this.
2. She submits to sexual harassment because she is afraid she'll lose her job if she doesn't. She feels dirty and exploited.
And this is unfair to men how? Because they don't have to put up with sexual harassment at work as much?
I don't know. That's why I asked. Do you know?
And there is a 3rd option where she refuses.
Jokes/books/movies makes it seems like it happens all the time, but I don't know if it really does.
I can't take claims of the above seriously in the US, because women are 100% legally protected from professional retribution when declining said "deals". I can't speak to outside the US, but here, the protections are vast and absolute.
It's not 1913 anymore, any anybody who claims otherwise needs to wake up to the current legal reality.
But I have no idea if this actually happens as often as jokes and books/movies claim it does.
Which doesn't justify when a woman gets a job by blowing someone, but as a man i'm not exactly concerned about the relative amounts of privilege I receive relative to the blowjob "opportunities"/discrimination women do...
I am of course doing my small part to fix this by offering to blow every Manager i meet if they'll promote me :( You gotta do what you gotta do for equality...