Academic sexual harassment: From theory and research to program implementation.

Abstract

Have I been overtly discriminated against? Possibly no. Have I been encouraged, helped, congratulated, received recognition, gotten a friendly hello, a solicitous "can I help you out?" The answer is no. Being a woman here just makes you be tougher, work harder, and hope if you get a 4.0 GPA [grade point average] someone will say, "You're good." Perhaps like a fellow student told me, 'you're only here to get a husband.' If that were true, I can think of easier, less painful and discouraging ways.When people treated me differently in college because I was Black and female in things like counseling me on the choice of a major or making comments about my background or about Blacks, I wondered what was wrong with me.

The Schedule Of Sexist Events: A Measure of Lifetime and Recent Sexist Discrimination in Women's Lives

“…Where close relationships are concerned, we suggest that the differences reflect cultural differences in the prevalence of highly traditional gender roles. This interpretation, as well as the ethnic differences data, is consistent with others' (e.g., Atkinson, Morten & Sue, 1993;Paludi et al, 1995). For example, these findings are consistent with data that indicate that many Latino (Falicov, 1982) and Asian-American (Root, 1995) families emphasize highly traditional gender roles in which women are expected to be subservient and are treated as inferior.…”

Examining The Job-Related, Psychological, and Physical Outcomes of Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Meta-Analytic Review

“…We confined the scope of our analysis to the genuine experiences of working samples because analogue studies (i.e., studies that ask students how they would feel about and respond to fictitious scenarios of sexual harassment) often lack validity in projecting the response of harassed individuals in reality (Paludi et al, 1995). Using PsycINFO, Social Science Citation, and Medline databases, we conducted a thorough search for studies on sexual harassment in the workplace to the end of 2007.…”

A more accurate approach to measuring the prevalence of sexual harassment among high school students.

“…Sexual harassment comprises aspects of intimidation whose emotional and physical effects may act to interfere with personal, educational, and career development (Paludi, 1997; Walker, Erickson, & Woolsey, 1985). Most of the research in the area of sexual harassment has focused on the university setting or the workplace.…”