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Men account for nearly 1 in 5 complaints of workplace sexual harassment with the EEOC

April 8, 2018 at 7:32 p.m. EDT
Perry Funk, a nuclear worker from Lynchburg, Va., is suing his employer because he alleges management allowed a male co-worker to sexually harass him for three years. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)

A long wished-for promotion brought better working hours and a big increase in pay for Perry Funk, who had already clocked 15 years at a nuclear manufacturing facility in Lynchburg, Va.

But over time, he found that his new job was making him miserable. He reported to a more remote part of the facility, and he said he began to experience what he described as daily sexual harassment from one of the only other workers in the building.