#USA Finally, a startup that takes reporting sexual harassment seriously

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Even before Harvey Weinstein kicked off this wave of actual consequences for sexual assault and harassment, Claire Schmidt was thinking about how to create a platform that would help victims. 

Schmidt, up through this week vice president of technology and innovation at Twentieth Century Fox, on Tuesday launched the startup AllVoices. The web platform will let people anonymously report their experiences of sexual harassment at work, and will in turn aggregate that data to give companies insights on the true scale of the problem. 

It’s a much-needed third option for victims of sexual harassment besides making their experiences public through litigation or in the press. For victims of harassment whose harassers aren’t high-profile enough to warrant news coverage, a platform like this is basically the only other option besides taking legal action.  Read more…

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