LinkedIn is supposed to be a place where people can boost their professional networks and create connections, but in spite of the fact that this is the case, female users face an unnecessary threat in unwanted advances. This is when someone or the other approaches them and makes inappropriate comments, and it turns out that as many as 91% of women on LinkedIn have faced something like this in the past.
This information is coming out of a survey conducted by Passport Photo, and it shed some light on the plight of women online. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that nearly 25% of the women that responded to this survey stated that they experience unwelcome advances on a daily basis, or even multiple times a day.
What’s more, 74% of women said that these interactions made them less likely to post on LinkedIn than might have been the case otherwise. 30.84% of survey respondents said that they received sexual or romantic propositions, but that’s not the only problem at play here. 30.23% also said that they were asked for intimate or personal information, and that alone can create an unsafe environment for women with all things having been considered and taken into account.
Such a trend is dangerous because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up alienating women that are in the work force. 14.75% of women said that they felt annoyed due to these encounters, with 9.73% stating they were made to feel uncomfortable, and 9.53% indicating that this was a violation of their privacy and right to use the platform.
LinkedIn is not the place for romantic requests, and it is highly unlikely that anyone you are interacting with will be interested in such a proposition. LinkedIn needs to play its part in reducing the frequency of these advances, otherwise women will not want to contribute to the platform to any degree. That will create an enormous imbalance which might only get worse as the years go by.
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This information is coming out of a survey conducted by Passport Photo, and it shed some light on the plight of women online. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that nearly 25% of the women that responded to this survey stated that they experience unwelcome advances on a daily basis, or even multiple times a day.
What’s more, 74% of women said that these interactions made them less likely to post on LinkedIn than might have been the case otherwise. 30.84% of survey respondents said that they received sexual or romantic propositions, but that’s not the only problem at play here. 30.23% also said that they were asked for intimate or personal information, and that alone can create an unsafe environment for women with all things having been considered and taken into account.
Such a trend is dangerous because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up alienating women that are in the work force. 14.75% of women said that they felt annoyed due to these encounters, with 9.73% stating they were made to feel uncomfortable, and 9.53% indicating that this was a violation of their privacy and right to use the platform.
LinkedIn is not the place for romantic requests, and it is highly unlikely that anyone you are interacting with will be interested in such a proposition. LinkedIn needs to play its part in reducing the frequency of these advances, otherwise women will not want to contribute to the platform to any degree. That will create an enormous imbalance which might only get worse as the years go by.
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