China is doing whatever they can to clean up their international image just before the Olympics start. One of their very welcome changes is a brand-new law against sexual harassment at work. A startling (and saddening) 79 percent of Chinese working women reported having been victim of some kind of harassment at the office. Before the law was passed, the very few women who were brave enough to press charges had their cases filed in civil court, where they were arbitrated quietly.
The first person convicted under the new anti-harassment law is a male office manager who came onto a female employee.
The man, a manager surnamed Liu from Sichuan province, invited a new female colleague to “discuss work matters” in his office but then told her he wanted to be her boyfriend, the Beijing News, citing a local newspaper, reported.
When she turned him down, he held her by the neck and kissed her. Colleagues called police after hearing her scream.
The man has been sentenced to five months in prison.
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