Chinese government to ban sexual harassment

I had no idea it wasn’t illegal; scary.
The central government wants to ban sexual harassment as a draft amendment to a law protecting the rights of women was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in Beijing yesterday for first deliberation.
According to the draft amendment, no one shall be allowed to subject women to sexual harassment and all work units shall take measures against sexual harassment.
“It is the first time for China to forbid sexual harassment with legislation,” said Wu Changzhen, professor with the China University of Political Science and Law, who was also the head of the draft team of the amendment.
Despite the fact that most women in China have been victims of sexual harassment–about 79 percent in one survey–the courts have only received 10 sexual harassment cases since 2001. Talk about an underreported crime!
But I suppose if there was no law forbidding harassment in the first place, there wasn’t really a reason for women to go the legal-route. The ball-kicking route is another story.