Ka Hansen

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Ka Hansen wrote in a post to her blog, titled “Why Women and Girls Can’t Hear Us Out About Sexual Harassment.” Hansen describes the two women as the “top executives and the head of HR at a huge company where there’s no real accountability.” To that end, one of the women—Liz Bair, who heads HR for a start-up called Moominology—went to the women’s board and suggested HR should consider the woman’s allegations against her. “Because of you, I think we might be able to get more results from this,” Bair told the women, according to Hansen. “You’ve done all the great work.”

Now, Moominology has a “zero tolerance” policy for sexual harassment, as Hansen writes, but its founders have a different position. The founders, Billie Holiday and her husband, Jerry Holkins, are said to care deeply about their staff, who are largely women. Billie Holkins wrote in a blog that she wanted them to be “truly open with their employees.” Meanwhile, the women who complain about sexual harassment are accused of being “unprofessional,” “crazy,” “out of touch,” and “showing up in a weird way,” Hansen told The Daily Beast.

At age 77, Kathy Shelton is being treated for an enlarged prostate, says Hansen—and if she doesn’t cure it soon, she’ll have to have her fallopian tubes and ovaries removed. She still has, from time to time, to have her ovaries extracted—but she does not like the thought of having her fallopian tubes replaced and her ovaries removed, Hansen explains. Shelton is among a small group of women Hansen is speaking to about their experiences with harassment. But others, like former Miss America Victoria Taylor, have come forward about their experiences with sexual harassment at work. In the first part of her video, Hansen spoke with Taylor about her experience with sexual harassment at work and why she says she has taken to “stand my ground” like this for years and is working to change something in the workforce. In the second part, Hansen spoke with Taylor about the lack of help for victims of harassment. “It gets to the point,” Taylor says in the video, “when people are on one side, and women are on the other side. It can get very hostile.”

Moominological, the start-up Hansen and Bair have founded, was

Ka Hansen

Location: Lagos , Nigeria
Company: Compass Group

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