Complaints of workplace harassment reach record levels: 230 reports are made per month

“inappropriate†and “sexual†comments about the clothes she wore and her body, “uncomfortable†conversations about sex in meetings with clients and co-workers, and aggressive and manipulative attitudes. It was like this for three years, until Maria (fictitious name at her own request), who lives in Lisbon and is around 40 years old, resigned from the company at the beginning of this year. The person responsible for the acts of harassment was the boss. “He praised out loud the way we women were dressed, commenting, for example, that we had a ‘good ass’. He made jokes about our personal lives, saying that we were ‘fresh at home, for sure†™, and that we certainly satisfied our boyfriends well because we were ‘pretty and hot’.â €