Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace Revisited: Influences on Sexual Harassment by Gender |
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| Authors: | Robert A Jackson Meredith A Newman |
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| Institution: | Robert A. Jackson;is an associate professor of political science at Florida State University. He is the coauthor of a previous article on sexual harassment that appeared in Public Administration Review. His research on voting behavior and elections has appeared in a variety of journals, including American Politics Research, the Journal of Politics, and Political Research Quarterly. E-mail: . Meredith A. Newman;is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Her articles on public management, gendered bureaucracy, and human resources have appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Public Administration Review, Women and Politics, and the Review of Public Personnel Administration. She is a past National Council representative of the American Society for Public Administration and the current chair of the Section on Public Administration Research.E-mail:. |
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| Abstract: | Using data from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's most recent survey on sexual harassment, this study examines influences on sexual harassment in the federal workplace. We investigate the effect of workers'sociodemographic characteristics, aspects of their daily work environment (the sex of the supervisor and female/male ratio of coworkers), and agency location. Drawing on a variety of theoretical models and addressing a limitation of a previous study, we assess whether and how influences on sexual harassment differ for men and women. Not only does the likelihood of sexual harassment differ for men and women, but the determinants of harassment differ as well. Women are more likely to indicate receipt of unwanted sexual attention as their ratio of male coworkers increases, and men are more likely to indicate its receipt as their ratio of female coworkers increases. We also find differential effects for sex of supervisor, age, education, and job type, among other variables. Our analyses highlight that gender conditions the influences on sexual harassment. |
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