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Newshound
08-09-2013, 12:21 PM
Former Equal Opportunity Commissioner Yvonne Henderson has fired a final broadside at WA workplaces warning that women continue to suffer sexual harassment, but now increasingly from younger perpetrators.

Ms Henderson said she was disappointed that reports of psychologically damaging behaviour against often young female workers at the start of their careers had not abated up to the end of her 10-year stint as commissioner in June.

And she believed such complaints would have been the "tip of the iceberg" because many women were reluctant to go to an external body such as the WA Equal Opportunity Commission, and would instead either try to solve problems themselves, or leave their job.

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