For generations of women who work in and around Westminster – from MPs to young research assistants – fending off men has been part of the job. Now that a WhatsApp group of women in politics is sharing information about them, the persistence of sexual harassment and worse ought to become clear. It felt like yet more proof that many men still don’t grasp what women face, or how damaging it can be. But this is a joke straight out of that compendium of bad taste jests, the Westminster playbook. Westminster, by most accounts, is a much less nasty place to work for women now that there are so many more female MPs and staff.

Source: The Guardian October 29, 2017 19:30 UTC