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Title: Organizational context and sexual harassment: A question of power, gender, or rights consciousness?

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: This study looks at two key issues relating to sexual harassment. First, the factors which lead to increased risk for being targeted for sexual harassment, and second, the employer reporting on rates of sexual harassment. While a focal concern of sexual harassment law and legal reasoning has been the work context and employers, these concepts have received limited attention in the scholarly literature on sexual harassment. I improve on the handful of earlier studies that in fact incorporate organizational contexts in to their explanatory models in several ways. Unlike these studies, I use a nationally representative sample of US-based organizations and a sample of adult Americans. I also use several contemporary theoretical constructs to explain sexual harassment occurrence and employer reactions. I contend that the gendered character of contemporary bureaucratic organizations, the civil rights consciousness of corporate officials, and management imperative to protect the organization from liability affect employer perceptions of sexual harassment. I also contend that gendered organizations and a work environment that is not conducive to legal consciousness increase . . .

Url: https://indigo.uic.edu/handle/10027/18093

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Authors: Vijayasiri, Ganga

Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago

Department: Sociology

Advisor: Gordon, Rachel

Degree: Ph.D.

Publisher Location: Chicago

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Other

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