Six months after sexual harassment complaints started piling up against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, The Washington Post reports Americans seem split on what the #MeToo movement has meant for the workplace.
According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, 68% of Republican men and 59% of Republican women say it’s “harder” for men to interact with female colleagues while 45% of Democratic men and 40% of Democratic women feel the same.
The survey, called “Sexual Harassment at Work in the Era of #MeToo,” sought to measure the labor impact of “increased attention to the issue of sexual harassment and assault,” the authors wrote. Respondents were not asked to explain their answers to multiple-choice questions or provide specific examples of how they thought things have changed.
The survey of 6,251 U.S. adults, conducted between Feb. 26 and March 11, found that political views, gender and age affect how people perceive the consequences of the recent spotlight on sexual harassment.
“The public is divided about whether this is a good thing for women in the long run or a bad thing,” says Kim Parker, director of social trends research at the Pew Research Center.
