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Thread #137967   Message #3157703
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
20-May-11 - 02:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Strauss-Kahn. American dirty tricks?
Subject: RE: BS: Strauss-Kahn. American dirty tricks?
"Interviews and documents paint a picture of the fund [IMF] as an institution whose sexual norms and customs are markedly different from those of Washington, leaving its female employees vulnerable to harassment.
One IMF statement in their rule book says "Intimate personal relationships between supervisors and subordinates do not, in themselves, constitute harassment." Ms Reinhart, formerly IMF's Deputy Director for reaserch... "That sets the stagem I think, for more risk-taking."
New York Times, May 19, 2011, "At I.M.F., Men on Prowl and Women on Guard."