Friday, May 20, 2011

IMF Rules: “Intimate personal relationships between supervisors and subordinates do not, in themselves, constitute harassment.”

Women are fair game at the oh so internationale institution. An elitist socialist pigsty these days that we fund bigtime. NY Times:
Interviews and documents paint a picture of the fund as an institution whose sexual norms and customs are markedly different from those of Washington, leaving its female employees vulnerable to harassment. The laws of the United States do not apply inside its walls, and until earlier this month the I.M.F.’s own rules contained an unusual provision that some experts and former officials say has encouraged managers to pursue the women who work for them: “Intimate personal relationships between supervisors and subordinates do not, in themselves, constitute harassment. 
It’s sort of like ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’; the rules are more like guidelines,” said Carmen M. Reinhart, a prominent female economist who served as the I.M.F.’s deputy director for research from 2001 to 2003. “That sets the stage, I think, for more risk-taking.
Pillaging in more than one sense. On our dime.

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