Atlanta Daniel was dumbstruck. The Australian entrepreneur was pitching to a prospective backer for her business when the conversation took a distinctly unpleasant turn.
“[The] investor told me I owed him a blow job for his help,” says Daniel.
The same investor told her “I’ll know your age when I see you naked” and “I have a job for you under the table”.
Daniel says she tried to brush off the remarks, not knowing how to handle it.
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“At the time I really thought I had no avenue to deal with that behaviour,” she told Fairfax Media. “He had quite a lot of power. For me in the end I chose avoidance, which wasn’t necessarily the best thing for me.”
It was not a one-off in the industry; another investor asked her if orgasms were her hobby.
from Eve’s Feed http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/95242161/Harrowing-tales-of-sexual-harassment-from-the-front-lines-of-the-tech-industry
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