College students and sexual dynamics: Two studies of peer sexual harassment

Ivy, Diana K.; Hamlet, Stephen

doi:10.1080/03634529609379044

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“…Much of the existing research focuses on harassment by males with power and authority over the woman. While some scholars note that harassment is often perpetrated by equal or lower status co-workers (Gutek, 1985;O'Connell & Korabik, 2000;Wayne, 2000) or schoolmates (Cummings & Armenta, 2002;Fineran & Bennett, 1999;Ivy & Hamlet, 1996), few have examined sexual harassment that is perpetrated by strangers and lovers. The few studies that do engage this last subject are typically qualitative in nature Duneier & Molotch, 1999;Gardner, 1980Gardner, , 1995Gardner, , 1997Nielsen, 2004).…”

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confidence: 97%

Sexual Harassment of Women in Urban China

2006

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Using data from the Chinese Health and Family Life survey, this study analyzed the prevalence of and risk factors for sexual harassment in China in the year 2000. It was the first study to use a general population sample to examine all types of harassment in an Asian country. The dataset was a stratified probability sample with 3,821 participants, and was nationally representative (apart from Hong Kong and Tibet) of China's adult population aged 20-64. In total, 12.5% of all women and 15.1% of urban women reported some form of harassment in the past year. Among urban women age 20-45, most cross-sex harassment was not from supervisors or superiors (1.4%) but from coworkers and other peers (7.0%), strangers (4.6%), dates and boyfriends (3.6%), and others (2.6%). Multivariate analysis of risk factors for cross-sex harassment suggested that, despite its predominance in the Western literature on sexual harassment, the power differentials approach, focusing on male-female power differentials in patriarchal societies, was of modest utility. The results were more consistent with a more comprehensive routine activities approach borrowed from criminology, which emphasizes situational opportunity, perceived benefit to the harasser, and reduced costs for the harasser. The most striking result from the data represents the area receiving the least attention in the West, namely, the perpetrator's perception of "benefit," deriving from the victim's inadvertent "signaling."

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confidence: 97%

Sexual Harassment of Women in Urban China

2006

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“…Surveys among students and people in the workforce have found behaviors consistent with gender harassment to be the most common form of sexual harassment, and to occur most often between a male perpetrator and a female victim (Fitzgerald et al, 1988;Gutek, 1985;Ivy & Hamlet, 1996). Further, while the SEQ categorization can be thought to reflect a continuum of severity, this by no means reduces the serious impact or negates the consequences that can affect victims of gender harassment.…”

Section: Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives On Sexual Harassmentmentioning

confidence: 93%

Tolerance of Sexual Harassment: A Laboratory Paradigm

2008

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The present study attempted to develop a laboratory analogue for the study of tolerance for sexual harassment by using an online speed-dating paradigm. In that context, the relation between participants' sexual harassment attitudes, perpetrator attractiveness, perpetrator status, and perceived dating potential of the perpetrator were examined as factors influencing participants' tolerance of sexually harassing behavior. Participants were 128 female college students from a small northeastern public university. Results indicated that attractiveness, high social status, and attitudinal beliefs about sexual harassment were all predictive of tolerance for sexual harassment, providing preliminary support for the validity of this paradigm. In addition, participants' self reported likelihood to date a bogus male dating candidate was also predictive of tolerance for sexual harassment, over and above the aforementioned variables, suggesting that dating potential can play a role in perceptions of sexual harassment. Further, this experiment demonstrated that perceptions of sexual harassment can be assessed using the in vivo measurement of behavior. In addition, using an online environment not only provides a contemporary spin and adds a greater degree of external validity compared to other sexual harassment analogues, it also reduces any risk of potential physical sexual contact for participants.

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“…It is no surprise then that men and women think about sexual harassment differently (Bingham & Battey, 2005;Clair, 1993aClair, , 1993bClair, , 1994Clair, , 1998Dougherty Making Sense of Fractured Identities 371 2001b; Dougherty & Smythe, 2004;Ivy & Hamlet, 1996;Kidder et al, 1995;Magley, Hulin, Fitzgerald, & DeNardo, 1999;Stepp, 2001;Sulfaro, 2002). For the most part, men and women tend to differ in the way they label their sexual harassment experience (Dougherty, 2001b;Magley et al, 1999).…”

Section: Different Experiences Of Sexual Harassmentmentioning

confidence: 95%