Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment

Paludi, Michele A.; Barichman, Richard B.; Spratlen, Lois Price

doi:10.1891/0886-6708.7.2.187

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“…Sexual harassment involves nonverbal, verbal, physical, or visual sexual attention, intimidation, or coercion that is unwelcome and unwanted and often has a negative impact on the psychosocial health of the victim (Bartlett & Rhode, 2006;Paludi, Barickman, & Barickman, 1991). Eve teasing is a euphemism in South Asia for a common form of sexual harassment that typically occurs in public places (Baxi, 2001;Dhillon & Bakaya, 2014).…”

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What Is Eve Teasing? A Mixed Methods Study of Sexual Harassment of Young Women in the Rural Indian Context

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Eve teasing was identified as a significant community problem through a community-based participatory process with nine villages in Punjab, India. Eve teasing is a common euphemism in South Asia for sexual harassment of women in public areas by men. The purpose of this study was to characterize the meaning of eve teasing in the rural context, especially among female youth, and to develop a means to measure its occurrence. Mixed methods were utilized including focus group discussions (FGDs), semistructured interviews, and direct observation of questionnaire administration. Thirty-four people participated in six FGDs; two with adolescent boys ( n = 10), two with adolescent girls ( n = 15), and two with women ages 20 to 26 years ( n = 9). Eighty-nine females, ages 14 to 26 years, were recruited through purposive sampling for face-to-face interviews in homes and schools. Twenty-four interviews were observed directly to aid questionnaire development. Eve teasing was described as staring, stalking, passing comments, and inappropriate physical touch. Perceived consequences of eve teasing included tight restrictions on girls’ mobility, inability to attend school or work, girls being blamed, and causing family problems. FGD participants suggested that eve teasing can lead to depression and suicide. Among the 36 (40.4%) interview participants who reported eve teasing, 61.1% reported feelings of anger, 47.2% reported feelings of shame or humiliation, and more than one third reported feelings of fear, worry, or tension. The questionnaire offers a means to assess the occurrence of eve teasing that is culturally relevant and age appropriate for female youth in India.

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“…Studies have documented the widespread occurrence of sexual harassment in educational settings (Dziech and Weiner, 1984;Fitzgerald et al, 1988;Fitzgerald and Ormerod, 1991;Mazer and Percival, 1989;McKinney, 1990;Paludi and Barickman, 1991;Reilly et al, 1986). Incidence studies conducted on various campuses in the United States have shown that men are often the harassers and women the victims (Adams, Kottke, and Padgitt, 1983;Bond, 1988;Dziech and Weiner, 1984;Fitzgerald, 1993;Reilly et al, 1986).…”

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“…Incidence studies conducted on various campuses in the United States have shown that men are often the harassers and women the victims (Adams, Kottke, and Padgitt, 1983;Bond, 1988;Dziech and Weiner, 1984;Fitzgerald, 1993;Reilly et al, 1986). These studies suggested that 30-50% of the women have experienced at least one incidence of sexual harassment by faculty members during their college life, while 70-90% of the women respondents reported being sexually harassed by male students (Paludi and Barickman, 1991). When various dimensions of sexual harassment are considered, the incidence rate of gender harassment (i.e., sexist or misogynistic comments or behaviors) is the highest and amounts to about 70% (Adams et al, 1983;Bond, 1988).…”

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Sexual harassment of Chinese college students

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Sexual harassment of Chinese college students with a focus on their awareness, experiences, responses, and expectations of institutional intervention to the problem was examined. 358 male and 491 female Chinese college students in Hong Kong participated. There were no gender differences in students' awareness of the phenomenon. Students' own experiences were less frequent than what they had heard about sexual harassment. Peer harassment occurred twice as frequently as faculty harassment. Compared to men, twice as many women said they had been sexually harassed. About one in four women students experienced various forms of sexual harassment and 1% were coerced into sexual activities during their college years by either teachers or peers. Students typically avoided and ignored the harassers and felt that the university should take up active roles in combating the problem. Comparisons with U.S. studies suggested that Chinese college students had a lower awareness and experience level in sexual harassment than U.S. students.

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“…Harassment can include 'sexual harassment' or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature. 22 From various international studies, estimates of the annual prevalence rates of hospital staff who have experienced SH vary from 0.7 to 9.5%. 23 Empirically, nurses are the most vulnerable population to SH among hospital workers.…”

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Sexual Harassment: A Growing Concern for Women in Indian Healthcare Industry

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Patnaik²,

Prabhakaran³

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International Journal of Research Foundation of Hospital and Healthcare Administration

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Centuries of development in the field of medicine, has been one among the many indispensable major factors behind India's sky-high growth and overall prosperity. Medicine has evolved itself from being just a subject of applied sciences at clinical level to become an industry occupied in constantly increasing the life-expectancy of the man kind. The Indian healthcare industry has been making an immense contribution in improving the quality of healthcare and ancillary services to the second largest populous country in the world, which shall continue only if every employee is secured from work-place crimes like sexual harassment. An employee is considered to be a victim of sexual harassment when he or she is mentally or/and physically pressurized against his or her will to get sexually exploited by a co-employee or a superior at his or her work-place. The Indian Penal Code along with several legislations governing the Indian healthcare industry have recognized the seriousness of 'sexual harassment at work-place', calling for an immediate attention from both legal and medical fraternity.

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Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment

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What Is Eve Teasing? A Mixed Methods Study of Sexual Harassment of Young Women in the Rural Indian Context

What Is Eve Teasing? A Mixed Methods Study of Sexual Harassment of Young Women in the Rural Indian Context

Sexual harassment of Chinese college students

Sexual Harassment: A Growing Concern for Women in Indian Healthcare Industry

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