Business perpetuates a culture of victim shaming and blaming — and my career is in tatters
It has been 22 months since I went public about my experience of sexual harassment in the workplace. I did so for moral and ethical reasons. Despite the difficulties I have since faced, I would do it again.
What happened to me was not my fault, and despite the odds being overwhelmingly against me I am not prepared to give up my career. I am a forensics specialist with more than 10 years’ experience. I have four law degrees. I have graduate degrees from Cambridge and Oxford. I am in the final months of my PhD in law at the University of Cape Town. I am a certified fraud investigator and a certified anti-money-laundering specialist.
In the last 15 months I have not been invited to any formal interviews. Where I have been invited to exploratory discussions, at which I volunteered information about my experience, I have been ghosted. Even with appropriately timed follow-ups there were many who went silent and never responded.
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