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having a very serious conversation about not just how do we protect people on Capitol Hill, and people in Hollywood, but how do we protect the most vulnerable people in our country who can’t afford to lose their jobs and are forced to tolerate this behavior?”
A November report by the Center for American Progress found the majority of complaints, 14.23 percent, filed to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between 2005 and 2015 came from the accommodation and food services industry.
“Hopefully, this is just the beginning of a broader conversation of what we need to do to make sure that people who are domestic workers, restaurant workers, farm workers, are protected and allowed to speak out.”
‘Boys will be boys’
Sondra Cosgrove, co-chair of the College of Southern Nevada Women’s Alliance, said it is promising that a conversation around sexual harassment in the workplace has started at all.
Two or three decades ago, the reaction to the Wynn allegations would have been much different, she said.
“It would have been ‘boys will be boys,’” she said, and women would have been more reluctant to come forward.
“Now women are professors and attorneys and police officers and politicians,” she said. “We have power, too.”
Las Vegas always has been about “the bottom line,” Cosgrove said, and issues that might affect it are likely to be taken seriously and addressed quickly. She noted that Wynn stock prices dropped with the allegations and rebounded with Wynn’s resignation.
“I think in the past, the harassment didn’t affect the bottom line,” she said. “I think something has changed, and I think it’s because millennials are such a big force in the market.”
Cosgrove sees Las Vegas’ culture changing because of the expanding influence of millennials, who tend to not patronize companies whose actions are contrary to their own values.
Contact Nicole Raz at nraz@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-4512. Follow @ Journalistnikki on Twitter. Contact John Przybys at jprzybys@reviewjournal. comor 702-383-0280. Follow @Jjprzybys on Twitter. It would have been better if it was handled quicker, but I understand he is entitled to make this own decision in due time. Even though this is never going to be behind us, it’s now over and we can begin healing moving forward . ... Our community, industry is bigger than any one person. Other people have come and gone, and this is a situation that demanded his resignation. I think it’s the right thing to do for him to step aside and not put a target on the Wynn properties. His behavior is his behavior. It’s very disappointing and I would call on women and men to continue coming forward when they believe something is not right.