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Showing 1 to 20 of 219 for “"Sexual harassment"”.
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Patient-To-Nurse Sexual Harassment
<p>Patient to nurse sexual harassment is an issue that can have significant effects on nurses physical and mental health, occupational function, and patient outcomes. It is an under-researched and often unaddressed issue, leaving many nurses unsure of what sexual harassment by a patient is and how …
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Sexual harassment in the workplace
The twentieth century has brought substantial changes in the legal and socioeconomic status of women. Women have entered the labour market in substantial numbers, hoping for recognition as persons in their own right, based on their individual capabilities and achievements in their chosen realms of …
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Three Lenses of Contrapower Sexual Harassment
<p>Contrapower sexual harassment refers to sexual harassment incidents where the perpetrator has less formal power within the organization than the person being victimized. Although the potential for inverse power dynamics were already identified in the early stages of sexual harassment research, …
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Sexual harassment: Education and the law
"Shortly after sexual harassment was recognized by the courts as a violation of Title VII's ban on sex discrimination in the workplace, it was also acknowledged as a violation of Title IX, which seeks to eliminate sex discrimination in education. Over time, an increasingly wide range of conduct has …
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Sexual harassment in the ivory tower
… to examine the nature and prevalence of sexual harassment on the college campus of Virginia Tech. The purpose was to identify the frequency of occurrence, the type of incidents, the seriousness of the harassment, and the awareness level of students concerning sexual harassment issues. To …
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Graduate students' perceptions of contrapower sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment is a serious problem no matter who perpetrates it, however, the majority of empirical sexual harassment literature has examined traditional (supervisor/supervisee, faculty/student) and peer sexual harassment with only a small number of studies examining contrapower sexual …
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Influences on Juror's Perceptions of Sexual Harassment
… jurors evaluating the facts of a potential sexual harassment incident, including information on victim and perpetrator intoxication levels. They first made an individual determination of sexual harassment, followed by a group determination. Generally, sober perpetrators were more likely to …
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Sexual harassment proclivity : dimensionality and individual differences
Sexual harassment proclivity is an important but understudied domain of human conduct. The most widely used measure solely assesses the use of professional power to obtain sexual favors from subordinates. This single dimension does not reflect the full scope of behaviors that are subsumed under the …
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Sexual harassment: The climate for women faculty
This is a study of the organizational climate for sexual harassment for university faculty, specifically, women faculty. Much of the current sexual harassment research in a university setting is focused on the experiences of college students. This study includes a collection of data about the …
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Power and the professorship: Perceptions of sexual harassment
… repeated requests for dates by a professor as sexual harassment. Data from a sample of UNLV teaching faculty (N = 276) suggests that professors who have higher levels of awareness of the personal power which they hold over students were more likely than professors with low levels of power …
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Sexual harassment jury instructions' effects on jury decisions
… reasonable standards on the jury's verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit. One hundred and fifty seven participants (82 males, 74 females and 1 unidentified), ages ranging from 16 to 90, (M= 22.74) were randomly divided into juries (7 reasonable woman, 8 reasonable person, and 9 reasonable …
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Sexual Harassment at the University of Puerto Rico
… how Puerto Rican women define and cope with sexual harassment, as well as what outcomes are most salient for this population. In turn, this information will better prepare psychologist to develop intervention or prevention efforts to improve the quality of life of Puerto Rican women.
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Reconceptualizing the Role of Climate in Sexual Harassment
Climate for sexual harassment is well-established as an antecedent to the occurrence of sexual harassment in organizations. However, when climate is viewed as an embodiment of leader behaviors related to sexual harassment, and when sexual harassment is viewed as a process, it becomes apparent that …
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Sexual Harassment at the University of Puerto Rico
This study examines the phenomena of sexual harassment within the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) by integrating cultural discourse and the study of sexual harassment. The study design includes qualitative and quantitative research methods to present a comprehensive picture of sexual harassment at …
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Effects of exposure to video games on sexual harassment
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Influences on Women's Perceptions of Climate for Sexual Harassment
Organizational tolerance of sexual harassment has been repeatedly touted as an important antecedent of sexual harassment. Yet, not much is known about the antecedents of perceptions of organizational tolerance. Based on theories from the sexual harassment, organizational justice, and psychological …
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The Structure and Function of Coping With Sexual Harassment
Studies of sexual harassment have recently begun to address the fact that most women do not stand idly by and let themselves be harassed; rather they do whatever is within their power to evade the harasser, divert his energies, or confront his behavior (e.g., Fitzgerald, Swan, & Fischer, 1995). The …
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