@rangerrebew Article said, "Lindsey Boylan tweeted that Cuomo “sexually harassed me for years,†adding that 'many saw it, and watched'.
She said she never knew what to expect. Would she be questioned on her work or harassed because of her looks. Boylan had accused Andrew Cuomo before but now she is going into specifics about the harassment.
Boylan said: 'Not knowing what to expect what’s the most upsetting part aside from knowing that no one would do a damn thing even when they saw it. No one. And I *know* I am not the only woman. I’m angry to be put in this situation at all. That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help others and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently. I hate that some men, like @NYGovCuomo abuse their power.'"
Ranger, let's go back in years to see what women had to "put up with" during my career, starting in the 50s and many years after that. Men had the freedom to say anything to women in the workplace and not give us jobs or advantages unless we would give them sex. Here are a few:
I worked in an accounting office for a man who owned oil wells. He did not hire me, the head accountant did. I took a report into this man's office and placed it on his desk. He pointed to my breasts and asked if they were real. I said, "You need to look at the figures on this report, not my breasts."
A while later, I was again in his office with a report. He said he would like me to go with him to his private house on a lake. I said, "My husband and I would like to go." That was the end of the lake invite.
Then, I went to the accountant and told him what was happening and I did not want to go to that man's office alone again. He said the woman before me had gone with him to his lake house. The accountant did not send me to that man's office again.
Before "Professional Counselors" were licensed by the state, we had to have a supervisor. I asked the man who was head of counselors at a school district if he knew someone who could do that. He got in touch with a psychologist friend and the friend and I met at a restaurant. He told me he would supervise me if I had sex with him. I left. Shortly after that, Texas had us take a test and become licensed.
During those years, I was a school counselor and wanted to buy a car. I went to a car dealer, chose a car and the man said I could not buy it since I was a woman. I went to our Teachers Credit Union where I was going to get the money to buy the car, and the manager got furious that the dealership would not sell me the car. He called the dealership and told the manager there that I had any amount of money I wanted at the Credit Union, and to sell me any car I wanted. I went back to the dealership and got the car.
Later, I wanted to buy a house. A real estate woman showed me a certain house and I wanted the house. She took the info. to the owner of that real estate office and he told her I could not buy it because I was a woman and he doubted I had a decent credit report. He called wherever he got credit information, and then told the real estate woman that I had better credit than he had. I bought the house.
I wanted a credit card. Went to a bank, and the woman said I could not have one because I was a woman. She left, then came back and said I could have the card.
I went to a Baptist church when I moved to an area to work as a counselor/psychological examiner in that school district. There was a man there who oversaw various church classes. One evening, my door bell rang and there was this man. He wanted me to work with him to visit members, then have sex with him. I told him no.
I am glad women today have "rights" like men do. Men are still "coming on" to women in the workplace but now it can be stopped. In my time period, nothing could be done.
