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"Having fun" during the working time

17-07-2002 Yu.P.Prokopenko, candidate of medical science, sexologist

  According to Gallup poll of 1999, more than 25% of women workers are victims of sexual harassment. Statistics in European countries does not look better - 25 - 50% of women suffer from sexual harassment at work. 

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