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Showing 1 to 20 of 426 for “"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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Gender-based public harassment: An intersectional approach to exploring frequency and effects of harassment experiences
… of 369 undergraduate women’s past year public harassment experiences with attention to an intersectional feminist framework. Employing an exploratory measure created specifically for the study, two dimensions of public harassment were examined: uninvited attention/appraisal and reactive …
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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 gain …
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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
… 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 be …
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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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Divine discrimination: gender harassment and Christian justification
<p>Gender harassment (i.e., derogatory comments or actions that express stereotypical attitudes regarding someone’s gender) is often times the most prominent form of sex-based harassment directed towards women in both workplace and academic settings. This study explored the moderating effect of …
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Sexual harassment: The climate for women faculty
… 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 perceptions …
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Testing the Continuum of Harm: the Role of Generlized Harassment and Leader Tolerance for Sexual Harassment in Predicting Survivor Outcomes
… and research attention to the topic of sexual harassment and assault in the U.S. military, violent crimes, such as the murder of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen by a fellow solder at the Army base in Fort Hood in Texas in 2020, have not stopped. While not all incidents of sexual harassment are …
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Power and the professorship: Perceptions of sexual harassment
… 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 awareness to …
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Sexual harassment jury instructions' effects on jury decisions
… 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 worker). …
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Sexual Harassment at the University of Puerto Rico
… 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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