Labor/Employment,
Government,
Family
Dec. 11, 2017
Surrogacy solicitation in Congress adds new wrinkle
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) reportedly asked two female staffers to serve as gestational carriers -- and his resignation has lessons beyond the heinous impropriety of workplace misconduct.
The lens on sexual misconduct has sharpened in recent weeks, focusing attention on conduct previously dismissed as acceptable assertions of male privilege. An unwanted hand here, some unwelcome "locker room talk" there, an opened bathrobe anywhere, each subjecting victims to violations of privacy zones installed to separate the body we present in public from the body we reserve for chosen intimacies. Common to each incident in which a woman is on the receiving end is ...
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