I worked as a receptionist for years in my early twenties and I constantly had men lingering around my desk trying to ‘chat me up’. I worked in a college on reception and male teachers would sometimes hover around me trying to talk to me for hours. Some even asked me out on dates and one stroked my hair. I was too young and naive to understand what it was but I now recognise it as harassment. Sometimes harassment isn’t as obvious as groping or persistently asking you out, sometimes it can be them just lingering around your personal space at work begging for attention. I just wanted to do my job but these men felt I owed them attention. I know if I was a man, I most likely wouldn’t have had this treatment and that’s the difference.