Sexual Harassment of Washington Women Journalists

McAdams, Katherine C.; Beasley, Maurine H.

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“…In addition to learning about the extent of physical and nonphysical sexual harassment among women journalists, we also were interested in determining how women in the newsroom define sexual harassment. Thus, Table 10 shows the women's responses to questions about whether a variety of types of behavior constitute sexual harassment. Specifically, we asked the women to use a five-point scale to indicate the extent to which they would define it as sexual harassment if a man: (a) made repeated, unwanted physical contact with a female coworker, (b) told sexual jokes to a female coworker who had never told him similar jokes, (c) pressured a female coworker for a date, (d) repeatedly made remarks with sexual meanings or double entendres to a female coworker, (e) flirted with a female coworker who had not previously flirted with him, or (f) displayed sexually oriented posters or calendars in areas where female coworkers would have to see them.…”

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Sexual Harassment of Women Journalists

Walsh-Childers

Chance

Herzog

1996

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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A survey of 227 women newspaper journalists revealed that more than 60 percent believe sexual harassment is at least somewhat a problem for women journalists; more than one-third said harassment has been at least somezuhat a problem for them personally. Two-thirds experience nonphysical sexual harassment at least sometimes, and about 2 7 percent experience physical sexual harassment at least sometimes. News sources were the most frequent harassers, and harassment ranged from degrading comments to sexual assault.

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Section: Sexual Harassment Of Women ]Ournaustsmentioning

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Sexual Harassment of Women Journalists

Walsh-Childers

Chance

Herzog

1996

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…One survey shows 80 percent of female Capitol reporters identifying sexual harassment as a problem for women journalists; over 60 per cent said they personally encountered it, often by co-workers (McAdams & Beasley, 1994). In a 1995 survey of 227 women journalists of all types, one-third reported having been harassed (Walsh-Childers, Chance & Herzog, 1995).…”

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Judging the judges: Journalists and standpoints

Steiner

1995

New Jersey Journal of Communication

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“…One study found sources to be a major perpetrator of sexual harassment of women journalists: 70% of women journalists surveyed in the mid-1990s said a source had verbally sexually assaulted them (Walsh-Childers et al, 1996). Around that same time, 60% of women journalists covering politics in Washington, D.C., reported being sexually harassed by sources (McAdams & Beasley, 1994). A more recent study (Posetti et al, 2020) found that, of women who have been harassed online, 15% of the people doing that harassment are journalists’ sources or contacts.…”

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An Intersectional Analysis of U.S. Journalists’ Experiences With Hostile Sources

Mesmer

2022

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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Given rising hostility toward journalists in the United States, this monograph illuminates how journalists experience hostility from news sources. Drawing on 38 in-depth interviews with U.S. journalists, this project uses the theory of intersectionality to understand how journalists experienced hostility and how they changed their journalistic routines in response. Participants described four forms of hostility from news sources: general distrust of the news media, boundary crossing, safety-violating hostility, and microaggressions. Boundary crossing was primarily used toward younger women, and microaggressions were used toward White women and men and women of color. Although safety-violating hostility occurred least often, it was the most intense form of hostility and was disproportionately experienced by women, whose gender, race, age, tenure, and even their geographical location worked against them to create hostile and unsafe situations. These findings should inform how news editors think about story assignments and reporters’ safety on the job so that editors empathize more with reporters and do away with more dangerous reporting scenarios, such as person-on-the-street interviews and door knocking. Finally, as many reporters were unprepared for the hostility they experienced, journalism instructors should focus on hostility as a reality journalists will likely face in the field.

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Sexual Harassment of Washington Women Journalists

Abstract: Eighty percent of the respondents, women journalists in Washington, report sexual harassment is a problem for women journalists in general, and 60 percent say it has been problem for them personally.

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Sexual Harassment of Women Journalists

Sexual Harassment of Women Journalists

Judging the judges: Journalists and standpoints

An Intersectional Analysis of U.S. Journalists’ Experiences With Hostile Sources

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