Women at Work: Sexual Harassment
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Project Citation:
Keplinger, Ksenia. Women at Work: Sexual Harassment. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-05-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E109149V2
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Over the last two years, awareness about the sexual mistreatment
of women has stunned the world. According to analysis by the New York Times,
the defeat of Hilary Clinton and election of Donald Trump spurred a women’s
movement in the US that began in November of 2016 and resulted in protests
across the country, including the largest single-day protest in history on
January 21, 2017. Later that year, the #MeToo movement (starting in October
2017) and subsequent #TimesUp movement (starting in January 2018) galvanized women
to unite against sexual assault and sexual harassment, which has become the
hallmark of the current women’s movement. But has anything changed over this
time period in regard to the sexual harassment of women? We examine data from
over 500 women at two points in time (September 2016 and September 2018) and
found reduced levels of the most egregious forms of sexual harassment (unwanted
sexual attention and sexual coercion) but increased levels of gender harassment
in 2018 compared to data collected in 2016. More importantly, sexual harassment
had a weaker relationship with women’s negative self-views (lower self-esteem,
higher self-doubt) in 2018 compared to 2016. Qualitative interviews collected from
women in the fall of 2016 and in the fall of 2018 from the same women, support
the quantitative data. They suggest that the decrease in the more egregious
forms of sexual harassment is due to the increased scrutiny on the topic and
the increase in gender harassment is the result of backlash against women. The
interviewees also suggest that the diminished relationship between sexual
harassment and negative self-views was the result of reduced
shame and increased support and empowerment.
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