As in, how many women stopped working, resigned, left the field, quit, were fired, etc... because of this one person's @sshole behavior that is now in the news losing their job.

"I may not have been mindful enough of the special challenges and pressures that women face in the workplace."

I might have felt better about it he had gone on to say: "because they have to work with a-holes like me."

And does he think that just because complaints werem't lodged by men - assuming that's the case - that the men who worked for him were not just okay with how the women were being treated, but were okay with his "broad sense of humor and candid way of talking?"

I wonder: what would his reaction have been had his clerks - male and female - given as good as they got, if they had adopted his same sense of humor and candid way of talking?  I'm thinking he may have felt they were being insubordinate.

The appropriateness of someone's behavior should not hinge on the gender of the person or persons at whom it is directed.  People are entitled to respect, period.  But it seems there's still an attitude of having earned the right to act however one wants on the basis of seniority or power (and after you pay your dues in the trenches, you, too, can treat people like crap and not give a damn who you offend).

I do not understand these sexual situations transpire or come about. I know it happens. I have winced in the past when a younger male co-worker at my current job, once mentioned the "eye-candy" in the department. I never considered work the place for flirtation.

I will confess that in those 41 years, I have rarely, if ever, socialized with co-workers. It's just never been the place I look for friendships or relationships. I go to work to earn money. I am professional with everyone. I don't flirt, don't make sexual innuendos, don't  tell inappropriate jokes. It's not hard. It's actually really, really easy.