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State how your recommendation on gender based violence would help women feel safer in the work place​

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If I see one more comment on Sarah Everard making a "poor decision" to walk home alone at night, I might scream. I was attacked in broad daylight on a bright sunny morning, yards from my front door. Stop focusing on women's choices and start focusing on the men that attack us.

Joining in, a man called Stuart Edwards, who says he lives in the area Everard went missing, posted a Tweet to ask what men could do. It was the start of a long conversation and his post was retweeted almost 3,000 times.

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Women around the world are disproportionately impacted by gender-based violence including sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. Millions of female workers are forced to work in an intimidating, hostile or humiliating environment, and experience various unwelcome forms of sexual conduct. Women are asked for sexual favours, exposed to inappropriate jokes, insinuations, and comments, and unwanted physical contact that can amount to assault. Despite its massive scale, sexual harassment in the workplace remains under-reported because of fear of disbelief, blame, or social or professional retaliation.

While sexual harassment and assault is a human rights abuse, there is no detailed

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