Perceptions of Sexual Harassment: The Effects of Gender,Legal Standard,and Ambivalent Sexism |
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Authors: | Wiener Richard L. Hurt Linda Russell Brenda Mannen Kelley Gasper Charles |
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Affiliation: | (1) Saint Louis University and Missouri Institute of Mental Health, USA;(2) Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, 221 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63103;(3) Saint Louis University, USA |
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Abstract: | This research tests the possibility that the reasonable woman as compared to the reasonable person test of hostile work environment sexual harassment interacts with hostile and benevolent sexist beliefs and under some conditions triggers protectionist attitudes toward women who complain of sexual harassment, We administered to a sample of undergraduates the ambivalent sexism inventory along with the fact patterns in two harassment cases and asked them to make legally relevant decisions under either the reasonable woman or person standard. We found that those high in hostile sexism, and women, found more evidence of harassment. However, those high in benevolent sexism did not exhibit the hostile sexism effects. Although men were less sensitive to the reasonable woman standard than women, under some conditions the reasonable woman standard enabled both genders to find greater evidence of harassment. The results are discussed from the perspectives of law and psychology. |
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