A new report finds that women are most vulnerable when speaking out against company wrongdoing. According to the report, close to one in three women who blew the whistle reportedly faced bullying and discrimination in the workplace as a result.
The Human Rights Law Centre (HLRC) has published a report showing that “women have been shown to suffer greater retaliation”.
Although there are similar rates of reprisal experienced by men and women alike for whistleblowing, “almost a third of [women] faced harassment and bullying because of their disclosures, while only nine per cent of [men] did”, the report noted.
“Women whistleblowers pay a heavy price for their courage. While men and women face reprisal at similar rates… women are more likely to be harassed and bullied in the workplace for speaking up,” said Anneliese Cooper, acting senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre.
The report also drew links between income and reprisal, noting “women are more likely to suffer reprisal the less they earn”. It further revealed that the whistleblowers “who are junior and lack power are more likely to suffer reprisal”.
Julia Delaforce, who is a Royal Australian Air Force whistleblower, said that “women are rarely the public face of whistleblowing, yet we do speak up at great risk to our wellbeing in the process.”
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