Sexual harassment: is it a case of gendered perspective?
Globally, the phenomenon of Sexual harassment has always been looked from a woman’s perspective. To date, almost all studies on sexual harassment look at the incidences of sexual harassment, the effects on victims and coping strategies for victims; and in most instances victims are women. There is a...
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Center for Promoting Ideas
2011
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22672/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22672/1/Sexual%20harassment%20is%20it%20a%20case%20of%20gendered%20perspective.pdf |
| Summary: | Globally, the phenomenon of Sexual harassment has always been looked from a woman’s perspective. To date, almost all studies on sexual harassment look at the incidences of sexual harassment, the effects on victims and coping strategies for victims; and in most instances victims are women. There is a dire need to change our understanding of this issue. In order to obtain a more holistic view of this issue, there should be a paradigm shift where the focus should be on the perpetrators. As men are generally the perpetrators, it is about time the phenomenon of sexual harassment is looked from a male perspective in understanding what brought men to engage in the act of sexual harassment. |
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