Political scientists recently have taken great strides in addressing sexual harassment and assault in the discipline. Little has been said, however, about sexual violence that political scientists ...may confront during field research. Field research involves any data-collection activity that occurs away from a researcher’s home institution, including visiting a prominent archive, interviewing political elites, and conducting direct observation of political phenomenon, and fieldwork is widely considered essential to data collection and career development across political science subfields. Field researchers may experience numerous power disparities that put them at acute risk for sexual or gender-based violence in the field, and evidence suggests that such experiences are pervasive and professionally devastating. In an effort to reduce gender-based violence and discrimination across academic worksites, several disciplines and institutions have developed specific guidelines and protocols to prevent and address sexual harassment and assault during fieldwork (Berkeley PATH to Care Center 2020; University of California, Riverside 2018; University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology 2019; Woodgate et al. 2018). Political scientists, however, have largely failed to conceptualize field placements as work settings or to address gender-based violence during fieldwork in our curriculum, training, and policies. Instead, they rely on deeply held methodological fallacies that insist on a field researcher’s absolute privilege, trivialize experiences of sexual violence, and weaponize rape myths to portray survivors as professionally incompetent (Hunt 2022).
Se presentan los resultados de un estudio sobre casos de acoso sexual hacia el personal bibliotecario de las bibliotecas públicas de España. Se plantearon tres objetivos: conocer mediante una ...encuesta las experiencias de acoso según su tipo y por quién fueron perpetradas; valorar si hubo respaldo institucional; y formular propuestas para la mejora y supe-ración del problema. Como principales resultados se han identificado múltiples situaciones de acoso sexual cometidas principalmente por usuarios, pero también por compañeros y superiores; que las mujeres son quienes más sufren los actos de acoso; y que no se da el apoyo institucional suficiente en los casos sufridos para su prevención y/o corrección. Los organismos de las instituciones públicas con competencia en el problema del acoso y en el ámbito bibliotecario de-ben realizar una propuesta de prevención del acoso y protección frente al mismo para su erradicación y prevención. Si las bibliotecas son además consideradas lugares relacionados con el capital social, humano y cultural, hay que trabajar para que estén libres de acoso sexual. Dado que no se han identificado trabajos previos sobre el tema analizado, siendo posible considerar que este es el primer estudio que se centra en el acoso sexual hacia el personal bibliotecario de Espa-ña, el tema puede ser desarrollado en futuros trabajos tomando a este como base.
Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber ...instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age,Uberlandpaints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss.The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy.Uberlandchronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel behind the wheel. The book also explores Uber's outsized influence around the world: the billion-dollar company is now influencing everything from debates about sexual harassment and transportation regulations to racial equality campaigns and labor rights initiatives.Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's firsthand experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees,Uberlandgoes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
Aim
To raise awareness of a patient‐related antecedent of missed nursing care.
Background
Missed nursing care is negatively associated with patient outcomes; accordingly, hospitals employ strategies ...to mitigate missed care. While antecedents of missed nursing care resulting from the work environment of nurses are recognized, sexual harassment by patients is not.
Methods
This study is a hidden population study using respondent‐driven sampling. We analysed data from thirty letters of frontline nurses from a tertiary Israeli hospital using the six steps of Aronson's thematic analysis.
Findings
Six themes emerged. Nurses (a) felt objectified and that the sacred nurse–patient therapeutic space was desecrated; (b) felt a lack of support from ward managers; (c) felt unprotected, lonely, and alienated; (d) did not share the experience with managers; (e) coped with sexual harassment by ending treatment quickly and later realized they missed some tasks; and (f) considered leaving nursing.
Conclusion (s)
Policymakers are called upon to adopt the eight steps suggested for effectively coping with sexual harassment by patients and thus to reduce missed nursing care.
Implications for Nursing Management
Managers are called upon to modify their management style and to provide support to nurses who experience sexual harassment in order to alleviate their stress, which is an also antecedent of missed nursing care.
The article suggests legal ways to protect employees from sexual harassment in the workplace. The authors note that the vector of development of labor law is turning towards personal non-property ...labor rights; psychological comfort in the workplace is also important for employees. Meanwhile, the ongoing processes in society (first of all, the #MeToo movement) indicate the need to introduce methods to protect employees from harassment into russian legislation.
El artículo sugiere formas legales de proteger a los empleados del acoso sexual en el lugar de trabajo. Los autores señalan que el vector de desarrollo de la legislación laboral se está orientando hacia los derechos laborales personales no patrimoniales; la comodidad psicológica en el lugar de trabajo también es importante para los empleados. Mientras tanto, los procesos en curso en la sociedad (en primer lugar, el movimiento #MeToo) indican la necesidad de introducir métodos para proteger a los empleados del acoso en la legislación rusa.
Sexual harassment is pervasive and has adverse effects on its victims, yet perceiving sexual harassment is wrought with ambiguity, making harassment difficult to identify and understand. Eleven ...preregistered, multimethod experiments (total N = 4,065 participants) investigated the nature of perceiving sexual harassment by testing whether perceptions of sexual harassment and its impact are facilitated when harassing behaviors target those who fit with the prototype of women (e.g., those who have feminine features, interests, and characteristics) relative to those who fit less well with this prototype. Studies A1-A5 demonstrate that participants' mental representation of sexual harassment targets overlapped with the prototypes of women as assessed through participant-generated drawings, face selection tasks, reverse correlation, and self-report measures. In Studies B1-B4, participants were less likely to label incidents as sexual harassment when they targeted nonprototypical women compared with prototypical women. In Studies C1 and C2, participants perceived sexual harassment claims to be less credible and the harassment itself to be less psychologically harmful when the victims were nonprototypical women rather than prototypical women. This research offers theoretical and methodological advances to the study of sexual harassment through social cognition and prototypicality perspectives, and it has implications for harassment reporting and litigation as well as the realization of fundamental civil rights. For materials, data, and preregistrations of all studies, see https://osf.io/xehu9/.
Sexual harassment is hurtful for victims, observers, and the organizations that employ them. Although previous studies have identified numerous gender‐specific antecedents such as sex similarity and ...climate for sexual harassment, the present study considers the role of a more general contextual construct—organizational justice climate. Beyond examining justice climate as a predictor of sexual harassment, we also assess its potential moderation of well‐established relationships between antecedents (i.e., climate for sexual harassment and sex similarity) and sexual harassment at both the individual and unit levels. In two large military samples (Ns = 26,018 and 8,197), we found that psychological and collective justice climates (a) related negatively to sexual harassment and (b) moderated the effects of sex similarity and sexual harassment climate on sexual harassment. These findings indicate that harassment is less prevalent and established antecedents are less impactful when greater value is perceived to be placed on fairness. Moreover, the attenuating effects of justice climate appear interchangeable with those of harassment climate or sex similarity, suggesting that managing justice climate effectively generally helps to deter sexual harassment.
The impact of sexism on health has been widely demonstrated. However, literature affirms sexual myths, as sexual harassment myths, avoid some behaviours being perceived as sexist. This result has ...been found frequently in studies of simulated situations with students. This research examines the effect of endorsement of sexual myths and of benevolent experienced sexism on women’s health. A first study evaluated the psychometric properties of Spanish’ version of benevolent experienced sexism (EBX-SP). In a second study, a hierarchical multiple regression tested the effect of the two variables on health. Results indicated that benevolent experienced sexism, has more effect in the prediction of health than endorsement of sexual myths. Women who experienced sexual harassment declared fewer myths than those who have not. The women who have suffered sexual harassment also had poorer health and reported more benevolent sexist experiences. Our results suggest that myths do not affect the perception of the benevolent sexist experiences that women undergo, which has an impact on health.
This article examines the girls with deafness in schools who experience sexual harassment. The purpose of this study is to find a post-sexual harassment service model that is in accordance with the ...characteristics of girls with deafness and explain how schools pay attention to well-organized and theoretical programs using a preventive approach to mental health. Participants totaled 166 users consisting of 105 teachers, 38 students, 8 lecturers, 5 members of organizations for the deaf and other professions. The results showed that sexual harassment can occur physically and verbally towards the girls with deafness which can cause trauma. The girls with deafness are more at risk of being sexually abused than boys. They experienced very significant intimidation. The limited communication characteristics of girls with deafness cause trauma of sexual harassment, irrational beliefs that interfere with social functioning in the environment. There is a need for intervention in special mental health service programs such as REBT with Bisindo that are in accordance with the characteristics of students with deafness. The role of the teacher in preparing children to deal with face life in an increasingly complex society.
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