Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 3:14 p.m.

There's No Equal Footing in Sex With the Boss

by Connie Schultz

Well, here we go again.

This time it's in Ohio, where Attorney General Marc Dann insists that his extramarital affair with a subordinate was consensual.

That suggests an equal footing. It also suggests that Dann thinks the rest of us are as dimwitted as the buddies he fired last week.

Jessica Utovich is virtually half Dann's age, has a smidgeon of his higher education, earned about a third of his income and was employed at his mercy. If you can ignore all that, then maybe ...

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Posted by: robyn
Comment: #1
Thu May 29, 2008 4:50 PM

I want to thank Connie Schultz for her article. I am a therapist who works with women on a daily basis who have been exploited by males due to a power differential such as this one. Whether we are discussing bosses and employees or professors and students, we need to not underestimate the abusive nature of these relationships.Furthermore, we need to use these situations as an opportunity to educate young females to be more aware of situations which may place them at risk for this exploitation and assist them in developing enough self esteem and assertiveness to steer clear of this .

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