Sexual Harassment at the Intersection of Race and Gender: A Theoretical Model of the Sexual Harassment Experiences of Women of Color

Richardson, Brian; Taylor, Juandalynn

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“…Even though direct research on making‐sense of sexual harassment is rare (see Dougherty and Smythe for exception), a number of analogous studies have explored various aspects of interpreting and judging sexual harassment experiences (for example, Denissen ; Richardson and Taylor ; Wilson ). It has been specifically identified that victims’ mental health depends on how they make sense of their harassing experiences (O'Leary‐Kelly, Paetzold and Griffin ).…”

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Making sense of sexual harassment: narratives of working women in Sri Lanka

Adikaram

2017

Asia Pac J Human Res

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The purpose of this paper is to explore how Sri Lankan women make sense of their experiences of sexual harassment at the workplace using Weickian's 'sense-making in organizations' as the theoretical lens. Drawing from three narratives of working women, the findings indicate how women seek to understand what is going on, through a complex and interrelated process of enacting, selection, action and reaction, where retrospection, focusing and extracting on cues, social processes and identity construction, takes place in an ongoing process of sense-making. The findings move beyond previous studies by providing an in-depth understanding of the multifaceted process of sense-making in its entirety from experiencing sexual harassment to responding to it, in a backdrop of cultural norms and beliefs. Keywords: narratives, sense-making, sexual harassment, Sri LankaKey points 1 Women interpret and make sense of their experiences of sexual conduct at work in a multidimensional, complex, and ongoing process of enacting, selection, action and reaction. 2 Sense-making occurs in a complex web of retrospection, extracted cues, relationships, emotions, identity construction, and social processes, embedded in various cultural ethos. 3 In making decisions about sexual harassment complaints, managers should understand and consider this complex process of sense-making and why a recipient would react in a certain manner, without considering the instances or reactions in isolation or in an objective manner.

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Making sense of sexual harassment: narratives of working women in Sri Lanka

Adikaram

2017

Asia Pac J Human Res

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“…Third, feminist organizational communication scholars have demonstrated a commitment to research and activism that foregrounds pervasive social problems in organizational life and have pushed for changes in policy and practice within and beyond higher education. For example, scholars have made significant contributions by taking on issues like sexual violence on college campuses (D’Enbeau, 2017; Harris, 2019), racism in organizing and in organizational communication as a field (Allen, 1996; Ashcraft & Allen, 2003; Cruz et al, 2020), family leave policies and practices (Buzzanell & Liu, 2005), and sexual harassment in the workplace (Clair, 1993; Dougherty, 2001; Keyton et al, 2018; Richardson & Taylor, 2009), to name a few. Although this work has brought important scholarly attention to these issues, many feminist scholars have also simultaneously worked for change on their campuses, alongside organizations, in and with their communities, and/or within the discipline (see further discussions in the forum in this special issue).…”

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Legacies, Present, and Futures: Introduction to the Special Issue on Feminist Organizational Communication

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Linabary

2020

Management Communication Quarterly

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“…Researchers have looked into the contradictions and discriminatory practices that ethnic minority and immigrant employees experience in U.S. organizational contexts (Deitch et al, 2003;Meares, Oetzel, Torres, Derkacs, & Ginossar, 2004;Wu & Buzzanell, 2013). Feminist scholars discuss the concurrent threats to gender and ethnic identities faced by ethnic minority women in the United Kingdom and African-American and Hispanic women in the United States (Parker, 2001(Parker, , 2002Pompper, 2007;Richardson & Taylor, 2009). (Shi, 2008) or Filipina and Indonesian domestic helpers in Hong Kong (Ladegaard, 2013).…”

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Intercultural Workplace Communication

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Valo²

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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The workplace is a highly meaningful context for intercultural communication where persons who come from different countries, identify with different ethnic groups or speak different languages get to collaborate and develop relationships with one another. Needless to say, interpersonal communication in the workplace has always been a primary area of interest for intercultural communication research. Early scholarship focused on the preparation of U.S. military personnel, diplomats, business people, and missionaries for overseas assignments. However, the increasing pluralization of the social landscape has bolstered research endeavors. These days, the scope of intercultural workplace communication inquiry comprises everyday face-to-face and technology-mediated interactions in encounters, relationships, groups, and teams in a variety of working arrangements, and across a range of public and private sector organizations worldwide. The scholarship also draws on the organizational approaches of antidiscrimination and diversity management that emerged in the United States and have subsequently been exported to and reinterpreted in workplaces around the world. Researchers have looked into such workplace communication processes and phenomena as social categorization, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination, conflict and its management, organizational satisfaction and identification, socialization, supportive communication, interpersonal relationship development and informal interaction, negotiation of shared workplace culture, knowledge sharing, decision-making, learning and innovation, or leadership and management. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ways languages are used in interactions at work.

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Sexual Harassment at the Intersection of Race and Gender: A Theoretical Model of the Sexual Harassment Experiences of Women of Color

Cited by 47 publications

References 49 publications

Making sense of sexual harassment: narratives of working women in Sri Lanka

Making sense of sexual harassment: narratives of working women in Sri Lanka

Legacies, Present, and Futures: Introduction to the Special Issue on Feminist Organizational Communication

Intercultural Workplace Communication

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