In 2019, Drapers’ Gender Equality in Style survey revealed that just about half (48.4%) of respondents stated they’d encountered gender discrimination of their office, whereas greater than a 3rd (36%) stated they’d skilled inappropriate behaviour.
Six years on, stories of previous and present misconduct proceed to emerge.
On Monday morning (31 March), Primark proprietor Related British Meals (ABF) introduced that CEO Paul Marchant had resigned with instant impact following an investigation into an allegation about “inappropriate behaviour” in the direction of a feminine particular person in a social atmosphere.
The information got here days after it emerged that London luxurious division retailer Harrods might need to make compensation funds in extra of £300,000 to doubtlessly a whole lot of victims of its late proprietor Mohamed Al Fayed, in a redress scheme launched on 31 March.
In October 2024, the enterprise admitted it was in touch with greater than 250 people who had come ahead to report harassment from Al Fayed, following the discharge of the BBC‘s documentary and podcast Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods.
The 90-minute movie featured testimony from 13 girls who claimed to have suffered rape and sexual harassment by the hands of Al Fayed between 1985 and 2010, when he bought Harrods to the Qatari Royal Household by way of its Qatar Funding Authority for round £1.5bn.
Al Fayed died in 2023 aged 94 was by no means charged over the allegations.
To be able to map the size of sexual harassment within the vogue retail trade, in addition to the effectiveness of the steps taken to stop the difficulty, Drapers invitations staff to reply a five-minute, nameless survey linked under.
Your responses can be used to make clear the difficulty of sexual harassment inside vogue retail, as we attempt to drive change all through the trade.
