Workplace harassment: double jeopardy for minority women.
To date there have been no studies of how both sex and ethnicity might affect the incidence of both sexual and ethnic harassment at work. This article represents an effort to fill this gap. Data from employees at 5 organizations were used to test whether minority women are subject to double jeopardy at work, experiencing the most harassment because they are both women and members of a minority group. The results supported this prediction. Women experienced more sexual harassment than men, minorities experienced more ethnic harassment than Whites, and minority women experienced more harassment overall than majority men, minority men, and majority women.
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. jberdahl@rotman.utoronto.ca
Jennifer L
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Berdahl
Celia
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Moore
D000328:Adult; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups; D017406:Sexual Harassment; D012919:Social Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*