Actor David Schwimmer said almost every woman in his life had been sexually harassed, prompting him to join a star-studded campaign to encourage victims to speak up. The 50-year-old actor teamed up for the project with Israeli director Sigal Avin who last year released in her homeland shorts based on real-life incidents of sexual harassment. Schwimmer, who has a six-year-old daughter, said that he had grown concerned after hearing "countless stories" of sexual harassment from every women close to him - including his mother. "Every woman, no matter what her political beliefs, is subject to sexual harassment." Nearly three quarters of US adults who experienced sexual harassment at work did not report the incident, a 2013 YouGov/Huffington Post survey found

Source: Otago Daily Times April 04, 2017 03:56 UTC