Not Taking It Any More: Women Who Report or File Complaints of Sexual Harassment

ID:	HARP-311
Title:	Not Taking It Any More: Women Who Report or File Complaints of Sexual Harassment
Source:	The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 1999, 36, 4, Nov, 559-583
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Year:	1999
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Keywords:	Canada, complaint, human rights, woman, sexual harassment, civil and political rights, security, liberty
Abstract:	Explores conditions under which women report harassment & its effects, drawing on 1992 telephone interview data from 1,990 Canadian working women & archival data from the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Personal vulnerability, eg, age, marital status, or income, has little impact. Women tend to file external complaints when harassment involves a supervisor, multiple harassers, or is severe. Women who report experience more adverse outcomes than nonreporters. Reporting has a negative effect on work & personal life; the vast majority leave the job where the complaint occurred. Legally relevant variables, eg, severity or psychological distress, predict the complaint settlement.
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