Sexual Harassment globally is perceived to be an offensive act aimed at violating the fundamental human right of women and also violate their dignity. This negative trend though unpleasant wherever it takes place have a very adverse effect when it occur within an organizational setting. This is because apart from the physical and psychological trauma it exposes the victims to, their productivit...

Sexual harassment occurs with regularity during medical training, and it remains largely unreported. This study is one institution's attempt to understand how third and fourth-year medical students perceive and experience sexual harassment, what they believe about reporting sexual harassment, and how they believe it might be eradicated from the educational environment. We used a qualitative res...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify work-related risk factors for workplace violence in a representative sample of Korean employees. METHODS We analyzed the associations between work-related factors and workplace violence in 29,171 employees using data from the 2011 Korean Working Conditions Survey. The survey included questions about verbal abuse, unwanted sexual attention, thre...

BACKGROUND It is a recurrent finding that adolescent girls report psychological symptoms in a higher degree compared with boys. The explanations for this difference vary, but the psychosocial school environment has never been a focus in these explanations. The aim of this study was to analyse whether psychosocial factors at school were associated with a high degree of psychological symptoms amo...

Qualitative interviews exploring gender differences in perceptions of sexual harassment were conducted with 100 full-time St. Louis area employees. Women more than men reported that telling dirty/sexual jokes was a non-harassing behavior, qualified behaviors as harassing when they happened in the workplace, and considered behaviors as non-harassing when the man's intentions were not harmful. Me...

Having a quality annotated corpus is essential especially for applied research. Despite the recent focus ofWeb science community on researching about cyberbullying, the community dose not still have standard benchmarks. In this paper, we publish first, a quality annotated corpus and second, an offensive words lexicon capturing different types type of harassment as (i) sexual harassment, (ii) ra...

The rise of sexual harassment cases in Indonesia from year to is very disturbing the public, especially women. This article discusses prevention through media da'wah and how optimize it. study uses a quantitative approach. Methods collecting data by means survey using questionnaire. results showed that 100% respondents agreed social was most effective medium current era spreading against harass...