Judge Accepts Sexual Harassment as Breeding Mechanism

A Russian advertising executive has lost a case in which she attempted to sue her boss for sexual harassment. The judge's comment: "If we had no sexual harassment, we would have no children".

The unnamed executive claims her boss locked her out of the office following her refusal to engage in sexual relations with him. She claims he expected employees to signal with their eyes that they "wanted to be laid on the boardroom table". History was not on her side as she attempted to become the third female to successfully move such a case against her employer.

The judge felt the boss' behaviour was perfectly gallant.

According to a recent survey in Russia, 100 percent of female employees claimed to have been harassed, a third to have engaged in intercourse on the job and 7 percent to have been raped. Seems like this is a pervasive problem in Russia.