News tagged with gender harassment

Redefining sexual discrimination

verbal and nonverbal behaviors that convey insulting, hostile and degrading attitudes to women - is just as distressing for women victims as sexual advances in the workplace. According to Emily Leskinen, Lilia Cortina, and ...

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created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (28) | comments 2




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Dominant East Asians face workplace harassment, says study

When they don't conform to common racial stereotypes, such as being non-dominant, even people of East Asian descent are "unwelcome and unwanted by their co-workers," says a new paper from the University of Toronto's Rotman ...

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study suggests gender gap around homophobic bullying

A new study from Educational and Psychological Measurement (published by SAGE) found that when it comes to homophobic bullying, there could be a gender gap. While male victims are more likely to be bullied by male homoph ...

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Domestic violence not just at home

(PhysOrg.com) -- There is a direct link between domestic violence and productivity in the workplace, with one in five victims experiencing continued harassment from their partners at work, a UNSW study ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gaga's anti-bullying stance can help, says expert

Lady Gaga and other celebrities commenting on bullying have the chance to teach young people about the horrors of bullying abuse, says the director of the University at Buffalo's Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying ...

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created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Copper butterfly folds wings to avoid unwanted male advances

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a move that females of any species would likely recognize, the small copper female butterfly has evolved a strategy of dissuading amorous males that is both effective and energy conserving; ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Study finds surprising gender differences related to sexual harassment

Sexual harassment may have become so commonplace for women that they have built up resistance to harassing behavior they consider merely "bothersome," suggests a provocative new study by Michigan State University researchers.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mating mites trapped in amber reveal sex role reversal

In the mating game, some female mites are mightier than their mates, new research at the University of Michigan and the Russian Academy of Sciences suggests. The evidence comes, in part, from 40 million-year-old ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Psychology professor's book explores everyday feminism

Social psychologist Aaronette M. White believes in living feminism not just talking about it.

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created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Study analyzes personality traits of bullies, victims

(PhysOrg.com) -- Individuals with a high level of self-compassion were less likely to have been a bully or a victim, finds new research by University of Arizona undergraduate Michelle Harris.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Threat to employers and workforce productivity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A survey by King's College London and law firm Speechly Bircham reveals that employers are facing a sustained increase in workplace unrest as austerity measures, longer working hours, stress and a genuine ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2


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