Halifax Examiner · Posted: Sept 27, 2022 9:05 AM AT | Last Updated: September 27, 2022
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In an interview with Yvette d’Entremont from The Halifax Examiner, Erin McDonough, an Elizabeth Fry client, bravely and openly shared her experiences with sexual-based discrimination, bullying, harassment, and sexual assault in the workplace, and reflected on how her life is forever changed: “You basically have to grieve the person you were before all this stuff happened. One of the biggest struggles for me was I just wanted to get back to what I was like before the assault happened, and before everything happened, and I can’t. I’m a completely different person now.”
According to Emma Halpern, our executive director and manager of legal services, occurrences of workplace sexual harassment and assault continue to be far too common: “You don’t have to take it from me, you just have to open a newspaper to see the number of sexual harassment and sexual assault cases that come out of those male-dominated workplaces everywhere, from policing to the military to corrections. We know that is happening across this country.”
