Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers
Many women who work at McMurdo Station, the main United States research base in Antarctica, say the isolated environment and macho culture have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish.
This is straight out of a horror film
This is fucking horrific. Imagine being trapped in Antarctica being hunted by perverts. That’s a horror movie.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The howling winds and perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter were easing to a frozen spring when mechanic Liz Monahon at McMurdo Station grabbed a hammer.
In reviewing court records and internal communications, and in interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees, the AP uncovered a pattern of women who said their claims of harassment or assault were minimized by their employers, often leading to them or others being put in further danger.
Five months after its release, a woman at McMurdo told a deputy U.S. marshal that colleague Stephen Bieneman pinned her down and put his shin over her throat for about a minute while she desperately tried to communicate she couldn’t breathe.
Kathleen Naeher, the chief operating officer of the civil group at Leidos, told a congressional committee in December that they would install peepholes on dorm room doors, limit access to master keys that could open multiple bedrooms, and give teams in the field an extra satellite phone.
Monahon claims Izzi discouraged her from reporting what happened to the deputy U.S. marshal, in part because it would create jurisdictional headaches and even an international problem, as Buckingham was a New Zealand citizen.
Britt Barquist, who worked as foreperson of the fuel department, told the AP she was attending a safety briefing with co-workers in 2017 when a man in a senior role reached under the table and squeezed her upper leg.
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Poor summary
Antarcica is well out of the jurisdiction of any state law, which means shiving them in their sleep (or surprising them with a boiling mixture of water, cooking oil and sugar) cannot be entirely ruled out.
If they're going to act like jungle animals, maybe treat them like jungle animals.
IIRC the whole base is policed by the US Marshals, and treated as federal jurisdiction. But also, apparently there are loads of laws not being followed up on, so maybe you can just do what you want.
Utterly inhumane conditions for these poor women.
