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Guest Post: “Why Did They Let This Go On?”: How Media Coverage of Harassment Shifts Blame from Men to Institutions
Posted on May 23 2025 at 10:00
Over the last few months, EMCC has been hosting placements for Applied Gender Studies MSc students from the University of Strathclyde. As part of her placement, Anna McFatridge has been researching the media coverage of two high-profile allegations of sexual harassment. Read the first part of her blog series here. In this blog, she writes about how the media frames harassment as an institutional problem.
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