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Increasing Public Awareness of Sexual Harassment

In preparation to developing and implementing a campaign to increase public awareness toward sexual harassment, a study will be conducted to examine whether young people's attitudes toward sexual harassment differ in association with gender differences. To add context to this study, this paper examines the literature on gender-based attitudes toward sexual harassment.

Gender-based Attitudes Toward Sexual Harassment

The existing literature essentially consists of research examining for differences in male and female views and perceptions of sexual harassment and related matters. One area of study associated with male and female differences is in their perceptions of sexual harassment complaints. Summers (1991), for example, examined for gender-based differences in a relation to judgements of written descriptions of sexual harassment complaints.

Subjects in the study were 80 male and 80 female business majors. Each of the written descriptions depicted an incident in which a female employee accused a male employee of sexual harassment. Summers focused on subjects' perceptions of why these females had filed the complaint. In other words, Summers was interested in whether subjects believed that the complaint was made because of actual sexual harassment or for some other non-sexual reason.

Findings indicated that both males and females were inclined to believe that other factors were responsible for the complain being issued. These alternative reasons included: (1) the complainant's feminist orientation; (2) competition for job perks between the complainant and the man she accused; and

(3) personality characteristics of the complainant herself. Males were more inclined than females to attribute the complaint to characteristics of the complainant.

Another study of sexual harassment complaints and judgements was conducted by Castellow, Wuensch and Moore (1990). In particular, the authors were interested in whether ...

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