When confronted with sexual harassment, you don’t stand up for yourselves to the extent you believe you will. You condemn others who are passive in the face of sexual harassment, because you use false predictions as a benchmark.
If you can increase the accuracy of your predictions and realise you won’t stand up for yourselves as often as you would like to think, you will be less condemning of other victims.
If you can increase the accuracy of your predictions and realise you won’t stand up for yourselves as often as you would like to think, you will be less condemning of other victims. It helps explain why passivity in the face of harassment — the predominant response — is subject to so much scorn.
If you are a woman, who works in relatively equally matched gender groups, you are more likely to be harassed than women who worked in predominantly male or female groups. You are more likely to experience taunting, patronising, and predatory behaviours.
In various situations, you are likely to be harassed, where there is more opportunity, such as
- when there are just a few women
- when you are the dominant group in an occupation
- when you are in equally mixed gender groups
- where there is more opportunity.
Characteristics of your job also influences the likelihood and type of harassment. While increased job security is in combating the worst forms of sexual harassment, other factors are less effective.
If you have more autonomy, you are more likely to be the victim of every type of sexual harassment. More powers lead to women being taunted, but it also opens door for sexual solicitation, threats, and forced sexual contact.
If you are a victim of gender-harassed woman, you are likely to fare poorly in the workplace.