To improve organizational communication, this study identified the primary targets of sexual harassment in Latin America as a point of departure in addressing how managers can focus on strategic communication designed to deter future harassment. Consequently, this study reported the antecedent socio-cultural factors (i.e., marital status, age, education, race and sex) associated with employee t...

Across animals, sexual harassment induces fitness costs for females and males. However, little is known about the cognitive costs involved, i.e. whether it constrains learning processes, which could ultimately affect an individual's fitness. Here we evaluate the acquisition of environmental information in groups of fruit flies challenged with various levels of male sexual harassment. We show th...

This study was designed to examine the characteristics of a sexual harassment schema and its consequences using expectancy-violation theory as a framework for investigating an ostensible organizational grievance. Reactions to sexual harassment complainants were expected to be less favorable when the complainant was male than when the complainant was female. Results for the complainants of sexua...

The aims of this study were to investigate whether sexual harassment is related to mental and physical health of both men and women, and to explore the possible moderating effects of gender on the relation between sexual harassment and health. In addition, we investigated whether women were more often bothered by sexual harassment than men, and whether victims who report being bothered by the h...

harassment is a form of sex-based discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, more than 90% of large organizations have adopted a sexual harassment policy (Dobbin and Kelly 2007). With the Supreme Court holding that employers can mitigate liability by providing evidence of sexual harassment procedures (Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), organizations have i...

Many adolescents experience sexual harassment and victims of sexual harassment have higher risks regarding well-being and health behaviors such as higher risks of suicidal thoughts, suicidal ideation and feeling unsafe at school. A peer-performed play and school lessons on preventing sexual harassment behavior were presented to secondary school students. We evaluated its effectiveness, using a ...

Much of the work in today's service industries requires women to deal with people outside of their organizations, namely, customers and clients, yet research on sexual harassment has focused almost exclusively on sexual harassment within organizations. Because the threat of harassment also operates at the boundaries of organizations, our existing models based solely on harassment inside organiz...

Selection on males to mate at a higher rate than females often results in male harassment of females and counteracting female responses. When the reproductive value of copulation changes over time, these mating strategies are expected to be time dependent. Here, we demonstrate that variation in the intensity of male harassment leads to drastic changes in female daily mating patterns. In feral p...

Harassment of Working Women, Catharine MacKinnon notes that men’s victimization of women “is sufficiently pervasive in American society as to be nearly invisible” (1979:1). Since the publication of her book, sexual harassment has become increasingly visible, and variants of MacKinnon’s broad sociocultural explanation have gained broad acceptance (Schultz 2001; MacKinnon 2002; Tangri, Burt, and ...

Twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon made her pathbreaking argument that sexual harassment constitutes sex discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Her work entrenched a paradigm of sexual harassment as sexual conduct that men impose on women because they are women. Since then, a variety of plaintiffs whose complaints do not fit this paradigm have sought relief under a...