Money And Power Play In Sexual Harassment Cases

When it comes to cases involving sexual harassment, the rule of law does not apply to factors such as money and power, gender and false allegations. Firstly, money and power both play a role in impacting sexual harassment cases, the more money and power a person has, the easier it is for them to break the law and fail to receive any form of consequence. There are many cases of rich and powerful individuals getting away with breaking the law. For example, Ben Affleck admitted to sexual harassing an actress named Hillarie Burton. He groped the actress during an appearance on the show “Total Request Live” by MTV (Criss, 2017). Another case regards Donald Trump, he has been accused of 11 different cases of sexual harassment in the workplace however, he has denied all those …show more content…
Actor Anthony Rapp accused Kevin Spacey of making sexual advances towards him when they were both working on Broadway in 1986. Rapp was 14 at the time which makes this crime even more severe but, Spacey did not face any legal charges however, he got his show cancelled off Netflix and that was it, he dismissed the accusation by saying that he was under the influence of alcohol at the time and he apologized for his actions even though he does not remember them (Criss, 2017). These cases all demonstrate that money and power do affect rule of law, none of these men faced any severe consequences, no charges were laid, therefore, this proves that rule of law does not apply to cases when money and power is a factor, this allows for people with money and power get away with crimes but, this should not be happening, no one should be above rule of law. Secondly, gender plays a role in determining the outcome of a case more specifically, the gender of the victim aides with determining the outcome of a sexual harassment case, men being harassed is not taken seriously enough compared to woman being