NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Everyday
Health, one of the largest health websites, with an addressable
audience of over 40 million monthly unique users and 70 million
registered wellness seekers, launched their guide to sexual
harassment today, titled, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: How
to File a Complaint and Prepare for the Emotional Fallout. The
report grew out of the findings from Everyday Health's first survey
"Special Report on Women's Wellness 2017." Everyday Health created
this guide to offer people a timely, practical and actionable
resource for dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace. The
report outlined women's perspectives on their overall wellness.
With this new guide, Everyday Health continues to better inspire
and enable wellness by offering readers timely and authoritative
content on culturally pressing issues that are affecting health and
wellbeing.
If you're one of the millions of women (and men) who have been a
victim of sexual misconduct in the workplace, you are not alone.
Now more than ever, our culture is advancing to an open dialogue -
more than 4.7 million people used the #MeToo when it first emerged
in October 2017, and actors across
the board wore black at the 2018 Golden Globes to stand together
behind the #TimesUp movement in Hollywood.
"Sexual harassment is a pervasive problem. Deciding whether or
not to come forward and file a claim with your employer is a very
personal decision. We wanted to provide women and men with
information on how they could prepare themselves from both a
practical and emotional standpoint," said Maureen Connolly, Editor-in-Chief of Everyday
Health. "Empowering our readers with information that supports them
and their wellbeing in all facets of their lives is paramount to
our core mission."
"After seeing the results from our first survey (Special Report
on Women's Wellness 2017) it was evident that we needed to really
assess what's happening in today's cultural climate, and how that's
affecting men and women on a daily basis," said Lisa Kennedy, Executive Vice President and GM of
Everyday Health. "Cases of sexual harassment aren't just happening
in Hollywood, this is happening to
everyday men and women at everyday jobs, and we felt it was our
responsibility at Everyday Health to offer people a guide and
resource."
The Guide outlines step-by-step process that was created with
the help of employment and sexual harassment attorneys Gloria Allred and Neil
Mullin. This includes a definition of what constitutes
sexual harassment, the basics on gathering evidence, the role of
your HR department, how to file a complaint, and how to be prepared
for the social and emotional fallout that often comes from speaking
out. Additionally, the Guide includes three real-life accounts by
women including Ruth Everhart, a
pastor in Illinois, Janelle Asselin who was sexually harassed when
working at DC Comics, and a software engineer at a startup in
Silicon Valley.
The Guide is broken down into several sections, focusing in on
the step-by-step process to file:
- What You Should Know Before Filing a Sexual Harassment
Complaint
- Document and Gather Evidence of Your Harassment
- Tell Your Harasser to Stop
- Don't Quit Your Job Yet
- Consider Carefully How to Approach Human Resources
- Find a Plaintiff's Employment Lawyer to Protect Your
Rights
- Check Your Company's Internal Policy
- Know the Filing Deadlines
The Sexual Harassment Guide was created in response to the
findings of Everyday Health's first survey, "Special Report on
Women's Wellness 2017", which focused on the negative and positive
factors affecting women's wellness in today's uncertain climate.
Subsequent Everyday Health surveys will examine timely issues that
are causing a wave culturally and clinically.
To read the full Sexual Harassment Guide, please click
HERE.
About Everyday Health
Everyday Health, Inc. (NYSE: EVDY), is a leading provider of timely
and authoritative multimedia content, tools and information
services for one of the largest audiences of health and wellness
consumers and healthcare professionals. Utilizing premier
properties such as EverydayHealth.com, MedPageToday.com,
and MayoClinic.com, our robust subscriber databases and targeted
analytics technology enables the delivery of integrated
multi-channel marketing solutions resulting in outstanding
performance and impact. Everyday Health is committed to activating
engagement and empowering pursuits. A rigorous quantitative and
qualitative outcomes approach overlays all we do to identify and
match the right target audiences with the most efficient and
continuously-optimized messaging breaking down the barriers towards
superior health and wellness outcomes.
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