“…The vulnerable-victims hypothesis reflects in fact the typical scenario of workplace sexual harassment but as explained by Brodsky (1976), sexual harassment can be not only top-down, from supervisor to subordinate, but also horizontal, from peer to peer, and even bottom-up, from subordinate to manager, because competition for privilege occurs in all these directions. In fact, the new frontier of contemporary relations at work begs sociology scholars to examine more complex forms of discrimination (among them sexual harassment) that include the dynamics of workplace power relations (Roscigno, 2019;Hirsh, 2014;McLaughlin et al, 2012;Stainback et al, 2011). Considering workplace power, the so-called power threat model (McLaughlin et al, 2012) suggests that women who threaten men's dominance are more frequently targeted, because they challenge traditional gender norms.…”