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Factors that influence whether people define unwelcome sexual joking in the workplace as harassment
August 28th, 2008
A new study in Law & Social Inquiry shows that how people define sexual harassment is directly related to the extent to which they view sexual harassment rules as ambiguous and threatening to workplace norms. Justine E. Tinkler of Louisiana State University used data from a nationwide study of sexual harassment in the United States' federal workplace to investigate how policy knowledge, attitudes about the legal regulation of sexual harassment, and the social locations and experiences of employees affect their likelihood to label uninvited sexual teasing as sexual harassment. How men and women define sexual harassment is related to the degree to...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-08-28)
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